Men and Women as Equal

Blog Post Two
Are Women in America Treated Differently Than Men in Today’s Age?

    Everyone has their own opinion on whether men and women are treated equally. Some believe that women’s rights have evolved incredibly, going from “housewives”, to holding careers like senators and lawyers; others believe that we as a country, are far from equality between men and women. In fact, as unlikely as it may seem, studies show that women are still primarily treated unfairly compared to men. As the “Washington Post” states, “women make only 76 cents compared to a man’s dollar; make up the majority of Americans living in poverty; and hold only 17% of the seats in congress”, which shows the lack of power they have in the U.S government to date. Although women are just as educated as men, the numbers continue to drop as time goes on. After reading the statistics, It would be safe to say that they are not taken as seriously as men. This should be changed immediately, due to it having an important impact on the entire country, rising as high of a status as the president of the U.S.
    Females also experience more violence compared to males. As the “U.S Department of Justice” study states in 2008, “females experienced about 552,000 nonfatal victimizations”. That same article also states that, compared to only 101,000 (450,000 less) that occurred to men from women, a ratio of 4.3 to 0.8. This rate shows the large amount of turmoil afflicted to females as compared to that to males. Males also experience turmoil in the country although the more troubled situations happen to the women. The study also states that violence to women declined 53% from the years of 1993 to 2008, which is a positive, and is one thing that speaks highly of our countries culture toward women.

As the “Scholastic” article “Women in the U.S today” states briefly, “Although more doors are open to women today, there seems to be a ‘glass ceiling,’ a level above which women do not rise”. Some women carry executive positions in in the workforce, although it is not too common that they will. It also states that women have slowly become leaders in professions, especially in medicine and law; not to overlook sanitary workers, police officers, and firefighters, which are dominated in the workplace primarily by men today. “Not only have women often been denied fair salaries, but they have paid a price for trying to "have it all" — both a career and a family. More and more women are feeling the pressure of trying to balance their personal and professional lives.” They also have to balance their lives with raising a family as some do, to support them. Many men see women as just a “housewife” type of figure in society, while the male works. However, more and more women are beginning to break out of that shell of, the things that are only done by the men in society.

In all, women and men in America are treated differently, some in positive ways, and some in negative ways, but as most research actually shows, most, unfortunately, are in a negative way as it may seems. It may be this way now, but I am sure it should change as years progress, and as the country moves forward with accepting women into higher levels of authority, and with much more respect to others as well. No one’s perfect and everyone has their own opinion about many topics and social issues throughout the country, ours being the treatment of women in contrast to that of men. If the world was perfect, men and women would be treated as equals, but since it’s not, we could agree or disagree on the topic chosen in the writing, which I hope makes you think about the discussion in this writing. Thank you.