Living With Sexism Essay

Living with Sexism Men were always seen as superior and women have always been told to stay at home, do the chores, and raise the children. When women finally realized how discriminating the world was around the 1850’s they started to take matters into their own hands. Protests began to make an appearance and women fought and are still fighting, to be treated equal to men. People started to hear their demands and began to fix the problems that were at hand but they did not solve them to the extent that they need to be. Women now go to college and have full time jobs but they still are not as equal to men as we’d like to think they are. Men and women are still being treated differently in many places during life.

Wage Gaps between Genders

Girls and women are very often taken advantage of in these types of situations. “...As much as 70% of women experience violence during their life, the U.N. said.” That rate is especially high for women between the ages of 15 and 44 who are more likely to experience domestic violence than cancer, malaria or car accidents (Friedman 3). Females have to constantly be on edge and alert to make sure they aren’t part of that 70% of women that are raped and or abuse. These types of things are happening to so many females that it is almost normal for them to go through something like this whereas it is less common for men. Human trafficking is also a huge issue regarding women and their safety. Of the 800,000 plus people a year trafficked across international borders 80% of them are women (Friedman 3). This puts perspective on how much more women experience something that could possibly leave a PTSD than men. Human trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual harassment target more women than men. These things are very prevalent in our society and still nobody talks about