While I was growing up, I didn’t think the issue of women’s rights will ever affect me. My mom always talked about how much women are treated unequally. But at the age of fifth-teen, I finally realized how much I really do need women’s rights in my life. Not only did I feel it personally, but watching it happen all around me. “I raise up my voice-not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” This quote by Malala Yousafzai really captures the essences of my belief in the importance of women’s equality. Throughout the world, women’s rights are suppressed through religious or cultural beliefs. In the United States, women continue to work toward equality.
The women’s suffrage movement began in 1848, when the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Although women eventually won the right to vote in 1920, they continue to struggle for equal pay, reproductive rights, equal representation in government and justice for violence against women. While I am only nine-teen years old, I experienced what it is like when someone doesn’t treat me equally. While only being six-teen and walking to school, I would get cat-called and/or whistled by older men from their cars. It made me feel like I was a piece of meat, that wasn’t equally enough to respect. Now getting older, the cat-calling has gotten from out of the car, to a male following me to my car after work. Feeling unsafe while walking to my car or from class late at night is horrifying. I have to go an extra length to protect myself because some men can’t control their actions. One in five U.S women will get either sexually harassed or raped in their lifetime. The low estimate of women who get raped each year is 300,000. Those are just two facts about rape and the facts just get worst. Nothing will change unless we make a change in our actions and the way we view women in society. I hold this belief so strongly to me personally because not only have I struggled to …show more content…
That day symbolizes on how far into the next coming year to earn just as much as a man did in the previous year. While the unequal pay gap has gotten smaller, woman makes 77 cents to every dollar a man makes, the progress has been stalling on recent years. Even though women get way more college degrees than males, but they still make more money in the long run. When I was little, my mom told me a story on how she was up for a raise. She had way more experience than the guy who got it. At that times, she has had been a nurse for ten years and the same education plus more than the guy who got it. That man was only a nurse for two-years and he got his hourly pay increased even though my mom was due for one. She told me that it was the fact that he got the raise because he was a man and bar buddies with the boss. Not only did that unequal pay affect her but our family as well. Unequal pay and rights to women have been going on way before I was born and probably will keep going until we make a
The women’s suffrage movement began in 1848, when the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Although women eventually won the right to vote in 1920, they continue to struggle for equal pay, reproductive rights, equal representation in government and justice for violence against women. While I am only nine-teen years old, I experienced what it is like when someone doesn’t treat me equally. While only being six-teen and walking to school, I would get cat-called and/or whistled by older men from their cars. It made me feel like I was a piece of meat, that wasn’t equally enough to respect. Now getting older, the cat-calling has gotten from out of the car, to a male following me to my car after work. Feeling unsafe while walking to my car or from class late at night is horrifying. I have to go an extra length to protect myself because some men can’t control their actions. One in five U.S women will get either sexually harassed or raped in their lifetime. The low estimate of women who get raped each year is 300,000. Those are just two facts about rape and the facts just get worst. Nothing will change unless we make a change in our actions and the way we view women in society. I hold this belief so strongly to me personally because not only have I struggled to …show more content…
That day symbolizes on how far into the next coming year to earn just as much as a man did in the previous year. While the unequal pay gap has gotten smaller, woman makes 77 cents to every dollar a man makes, the progress has been stalling on recent years. Even though women get way more college degrees than males, but they still make more money in the long run. When I was little, my mom told me a story on how she was up for a raise. She had way more experience than the guy who got it. At that times, she has had been a nurse for ten years and the same education plus more than the guy who got it. That man was only a nurse for two-years and he got his hourly pay increased even though my mom was due for one. She told me that it was the fact that he got the raise because he was a man and bar buddies with the boss. Not only did that unequal pay affect her but our family as well. Unequal pay and rights to women have been going on way before I was born and probably will keep going until we make a