By Garrett Shilbilski
Have you ever been treated unfairly or not wanted? Well men don’t feel left out; women on the other hand, you are left out at least in America. America may seem like the place of opportunity for all but it’s not, women are left out in America. The U.S. has a larger gender gap than 22 other countries including Germany, Ireland, Nicaragua and Cuba, according to a World. The land of opportunity, not so much for women. Only 18 percent of women make up the house of representatives. This is because people favor men over women in the United States, that’s also why we haven’t had a female president. In Iceland scores the highest in the world for political empowerment of women. Female heads of state led the country for 20 out of the last 50 years. Women also make up about 40% of the country's parliament. When you think about it Men have a greater opportunity to advance in the business world that is because women have to fight a glass ceiling. Sure there are women CEO’s but there are more men CEO’s than women because it of the glass ceiling. Places like Cuba and Nicaragua also have a far greater percentage of women serving in their legislatures than in the United States which is shocking. Well women in America have kids and need to stay home take of the children so this is why the United States it lower in each category. Which also affects the reason why there is a glass ceiling in the workforce. The United States does give some workers the right to 12 weeks off from work after the birth of a child, but pay is not guaranteed.
People would disagree with this article, women are given the same opportunities. According to Census 2000, 281.4 million people were counted in the United States — 143.4 million of whom were female and 138.1 million male. So why wasn't the U.S. even close to the top? While the country scores high on economic opportunity and education for women, it scores poorly on political empowerment. This shows that there are more women than males in the country, it’s just that people prefer a male in charge, to make big decisions so that women don’t have to take the blame if something goes wrong. Also because women have kids they don’t go into the workforce like men do. If they wait on having kids Women can become CEO just look at the women from Yahoo she is successful because she waited to have kids which we are seeing more today.
The United States have come a long way from where we were from allowing women to vote in the US, women received the right to vote with the passing of the 19th amendment on August 18, 1920. They first voted in National Elections in 1923. If we keep it up women will might become president one day. Gender equality will keep increasing if we stay on track and keep giving women opportunities.
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The gender gap is a subject coming up in the news a lot after the annual Gender Gap report. While the report shows that the U.S. score has slightly increased, its overall ranking fell from 22nd to 23rd out of 136 countries. In order to fix this we must increase the amount of women representation in the government.
ReplyDeleteJust a quick thing Garret, make sure you watch your sentence structure to avoid awkward phrasing and to make sure that your sentences overall blend well with each other, effectively portraying the topic on hand.
ReplyDeleteThere will probably always be a gender gap based off of the biology of both genders. We're already separated by different bathrooms, different clothing, even different assumptions of taste, so the current gap in the government isn't surprising. Over the years, the topic has been tweaked and re-printed, but it was always there. There's not way to avoid the gap, but we can figure out new ways to make males and females slightly more equal than they are then their current state.
Great job Garret! I do agree that if we had more government representatives who were women it would help out more with gender inequalities, but we can also start smaller than this. Most women are stereotyped to become stay-at-home wives who care for the children. If businesses hired more women or were possibly run by a woman, females would be more accepted as workers and the gender gap would decrease. There will always be a gender gap, but this would help close the gap.
ReplyDeleteI agree completely. Well, I think that this country makes it out to seem like everybody is equal with opportunity and fairness, but not really in actuality. Women don't get the same opportunities. For example, for a construction worker job who would get the job; a man or woman? I think the guy would just because he is considered more manly and strong. This may not be the greatest for women, but it's how the United States is and how it will be for at least a long while, if not ever. If everybody was treated equally I think giving the female sex a chance at the jobs mostly men do would work. People may think that only men are capable, but I think they would be proved wrong.
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