What gender-based inequalities still need to be addressed in America?

Question

Please help me compile a list for my college students next semester. Which matters of gender-based inequality in society, business, home, church, sports, etc. are most important to address?

Answer 1

women are paid less then men in the same positions
Women dont have as many professional sports as men do. Like softball women can play the hell out of some softball but they can be professionals at it.
In the church women are starting to come up
In business women are still regarded as incapable of being able to handle the stresses of being CEO's and high up on the chain although that is slowly changing
I think that womens issues are coming more to light and that things are slowly changing for the better but it will take a LONG time before things becomes more fair and the playing ground is more level for women. We need to give our young children (female) something to dream about being and achieving. With the population becomming larger portion of females the time will come when females will be the majority and the men wont have a choice but to let us run things.

Answer 2

That women in the federal level are still considered to be second class citizens. There has been no true change to the constitution other than womens suffrage to help to offset the inequalities. The reason women are considered now somewhat on the same field is that the state level governments have made changes to better the lives of women. For sports there is a short documentary I think called the male guise which introduces the idea of women in sports being sex symbols and males as some kind of Rambo. Though we are slowly getting better in gender inequalities, we are still fighting some of the age old stereotypes.

Answer 3

Prostitution- which spans pretty much all of your categories..except sports.
Gay marriage is also a gender based inequality.
Education is still an issue. The major government funded (or most visible) college resource is for the armed forces. Where when women join, they are not given adequate war preparedness. The other most recognizable scholarship fund is "miss america"
Poverty is a major issue for women, the working poor are more often the working poor single mother.
Mental illness is not addressed enough instead prescription medication is dispensed faster than over the counter athletes foot medication.
Senior care: Women outlive men and their meager fixed income is not nearly enough to live out their lives reasonably.

A final rising issue that may be interesting. Mail order internet brides.
Most men say they want a tradtional wife or companion...and must search for it over seas.
What does this say about our culture, when these ladies are nearly being bought from poorer countries in return for a vaguely remembered ideal?

Answer 4

I won't say that it's the biggest problem, but I do believe that it is the root of a lot of the major problems that the world faces today. We can all agree that things have definitely gotten better in a lot of ways, but it still to this day is a "man's world." Most gender equality is protected by legislative means, but within an informal social setting gender (and racial) discrimination is still a little too common. There's still the woman's handful of cents to every dollar a man makes, comparable worth, and the glass ceiling in the more formal workplace. So yeah, it's obvious that women are generally still secondary in importance in many ways. The qualities that men have historically attributed to themselves and have displayed, by virtue of their sex--ambition, competitiveness, authority, physical strength, assertiveness--must have SOME sort of effect on today's social, political, and environmental problems. I think that women--who have historically displayed traits like nurturing, communication, reserve, empathy--haven't been allowed in the political and social sphere substantially enough to temper the extreme "masculine" behavior with which all social and political has been saturated. Naturally, this would also be true for a world which overvalued what would be the "feminine" while disregarding the contributions and importance of men, only I think we'd be screwed up now in a different way.... Oh, and I'm not trying to offend anyone; I acknowledge that masculine and feminine traits will both be found in any one individual, regardless of their sex. I think maleness-femaleness and masculinity-femininity are on a continuum, where even the most extreme trait should be valued but should also be softened with its opposite, to establish real harmony. I think once we find more harmony amongst all these polar traits within ourselves, and also between the sexes, there would surely be more harmony in the world on a much larger scale and between whole nations.

Answer 5

I believe the pay inequality is serious, for women tend to be shunted into positions that pay less for work of comparable difficulty.

The sad thing is that it is often other women, doing the hiring, that help to perpetuate the infamous "glass ceiling"

Answer 6

How about forcing women to sign up for the draft so they can die in combat to save the lives of all the penis' who don't have to fight and die.

Or wait a minute, how about sentencing Women child molesters to 20 years in prison and letting Man child molesters get off on probation.

Or how about a "Mens history month."

Or how about coed bathroom and onsens.

Or how about instead of hailing Jessica Lynch as the face of American heroism in Iraq we hail the team of MALE Navy Seals who had to go in and rescue her a**.

Or female sports teams vs male teams.

Just a few places to start off.

Answer 7

its simple.... take survey of those in power.... politicians, ceo's, etc. How many of these people are women?

the women's lib movement happened in the 60s - 70s... plenty of women have the education and experience to hold these positions, yet, they are still under represented.

Answer 8

toilet spaces at sporting events and concerts women need 3 -5 times the commodes

do it

Answer 9

Definitely sports. As society is visual. If we see more women as strong and able, we will assume they can handle and do more.

Answer 10

Opening doors.