Do women honestly have anything to complain about in the U.S. today?

Question

This is one of the most advanced and progressive societies in the world where women can do anything they want these days.

Answer 1

You can always find something to complain about, as long as you look for IT.
It doesnt matter how great your life is, isnt that kind of true??

Answer 2

No person can do anything they want. The US is 8th for human development but only 22 for gender equity. So obviously, some people are more free and equal than others. It's like saying a mega tsunami is coming. It's better to be on the second floor of a building than on the beach. So why go uphill? Because everyone below a certain level is gonna get hit and gonna get wet and they might not make it.

Answer 3

Women are paid less than men, even before they take time away from career to have & care for children. Women are more likely to be in poverty, be uninsured. The infant mortality rate is on the rise -- a shocking problem considering the wealth we have in this nation!

Sure -- as compared to many women in many countries, life for women in the US is better. But it's totally illogical to say that just because my life is better than the average woman in some other country means that I have no need to hope for better.

That's kind of like saying that since I'm not starving to death, I shouldn't complain that my only source of calories is canned cat food. Honestly, does anyone think that "when the minimum is all you want" applies to how we live?

Answer 4

Not true....my biggest complaint is the way we treat mothers. The FMLA is a joke. If a woman want to have a baby and help provide for the family (and some of us have to...I've got student loans), it's SO difficult. Childcare is impossibly expensive, and you don't get any time off with the baby. You tell me--is that fair to women? Shouldn't we treat the caregivers of the next generation better?

Answer 5

Although we have made great strides, women are still the gender that remains victims of crimes more often than men. However as far as jobs etc, I think the margins have narrowed considerably in salaries for the most part, though there still may be instances where men make more. There are still male-dominated professions. Truthfully, as a woman, I don't feel any real need to complain.

Answer 6

Compared to the rest of the world, not really. However, we still have a long way to go before we are as financially successful and respected as men. We're still making 70 cents for every dollar made by a man, and it is still rather difficult to break that "glass ceiling" in the corporate world, but we're doinbg great compared to women in other countries who aren't even allowed to show their faces or hair in public.

Answer 7

I think that in many cases women may actually be worse off in the U.S. than they think. In fact, I have been writing a paper comparing women in the U.S. to those in a country that many might see as our opposite: China. I am finding that women in many ways are actually better off in China than here. There is not the wage gap we have (most recently, the gap has increased here - down to 75.5% of men's pay in 2003). Women in China have equal rights as men, as declared in their Constitution. You won't find any such language in ours.

Discrimination does exist, still, & I am tired of the jokes that it does not. People need to wake up so that we can finally eradicate this embarrassing problem that America is the land of opportunity where women are disadvantaged; they are more likely to be poor, unemployed, underemployed, victims of violent crimes, and burdened with childcare, among other things. While we are better off compared to our own past, compared to other countries, we are still behind. In Sweden, Canada, and many other countries, both men and women are given paid time off to care for their children, something of which both parents take advantage. The U.S. (along with Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, and Swaziland) is one of the few that doesn't offer paid maternity/paternity leave. As long as the social stigmas exist (women as primary caretakers, mothers, housekeepers), nothing will change. We are blind and ignorant to keep on declaring that we are the best country in the world while doing nothing to ensure that it actually is so. We are actually falling behind the rest of the world.

Answer 8

Yes. My major complaint is that even though there are laws to promote equality of the sexes, individual attitudes of superiority seek to denigrate others. These attitudes spread like poison in the bloodstream, tainting what would otherwise be a great egalitarian society.

Answer 9

The United States ranks 22nd in top countries for gender equality (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Germany are the top 5) so yes there are things to complain about.

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