If I was a woman, I'd rather live in America than any other country, but are males & females really equal here

Question

Do females have to try harder?

why/why not?

Answer 1

there will never be exact equality face it men are better at some things and women better at other things its a fact of life.
What you want is equal opportunities and pay.

Answer 2

That depends on which door you look behind! Every workplace and every home is a microcosm in and of itself, where the female denizens have varying degrees of personal autonomy.

I have worked in places where the females seemed to dominate, places where the females were made to feel totally useless and drastically underappreciated and all sorts of gradients in between.

The same can be said of individual households. I have seen households dominated by women and households where the women were nothing more than living housecleaning robots and occasional sex toys - unpaid servants at best, and abused slaves at worst!

I noticed long ago that a woman's fight for equality is most often not in the workplace or political arena, but in her own home! I have been lucky (or maybe just determined and aware) enough to have always connected with men who appreciated women on an equal footing, but I have seen many, many friends and co-workers over the years who could not say the same.
Women put up a vigorous fight for equal rights in public venues, but how many surrender all semblance of equality inside their own homespace without so much as a whimper of protest?

Females ARE pretty much equal here now - IN PUBLIC - but again, overall, I would have to say it depends on which door you open and look behind.

Answer 3

On the most part it's equal. There are some things that will still divide men and women. But the big ones are covered. Sometimes I feel like I have to do it all. Have a job, have kids, raise the kids, clean the house, balance the bills, be the hottest women in town, just to be a decent person. It's over whelming so I just stick with the career thing.

Answer 4

Our country ranks THIRTY-SECOND amongst civilized countries in proportional representation. We have a "representative democracy" where women represent 51% of the population and only SEVENTEEN percent of the senate, and our country has yet to elect a female to our country's highest office in over two hundred years. All the candidates of a major party are proud to stand around and debate who would be best at policing women's uteruses.


It might be better than the Sudan, but there's more gender equality in one European town than in all of this country.

Answer 5

Why America? There are equal rights in Europe, Northern Ireland has the least difference in pay scales between men and women

Answer 6

America offers quite a level of equality to women but it's doubtful if they would vote for you for the Presidency.

Answer 7

No we are not equal, and as far as trying harder, yes in the business world. I worked in HR and I met some of the dumbest men and their resume's were impecible. I think guys get away with a lot more too than a women would.

Answer 8

the US ranks about 30 on the gender index scales. (scandanavian countries fare better.)

there are more opportunities, but we have low representation in government and many other leadership positions, still face harassment, and misogyny exists in the media and culture.

Answer 9

I beleive we are more equal here in the U.S. than atleast in any other country.

Answer 10

I believe things are getting better. But I also feel, in my field, at least, that women do have to work harder to prove themselves.