Women's Rights

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Date Submitted: 11/23/2015 09:50 PM

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By the age of 65, the average woman would have lost $431,000 if

the woman worked every week of the average women's working life. Men

are able to get some jobs better than women and they get paid more.

Even today, Women still get treated poorly, they get beaten when they

don't do something the first time, right away, they get harassed, and

multiple women have stories to tell about how they got their rights taken

away.The good thing is that many things have changed, but we still need

to improve things too. Women should be treated equally and not less.

Women get paid less than men because they used to stay at home and

do all the work around the house instead of getting an education. It is

unfair for the men to treat women like they are nothing.

Men do get paid more than women but by very little, about 4% or less.

Even though women tend to choose "less paying" jobs if they do the

same job as men, they would normally do they still get paid less. On

average in the United States, white women earn roughly 77 cents to every

dollar a man makes ( women of color only earn 64 cents to the same

buck). Women are also far less likely to get promoted than men.

Women all around the world are still harassed, beaten, killed, and forced

to do things they don't want to do, at young ages too. Men do it out of

habit, force, entertainment, or because they still think that they are less.

Over centuries women (and sometimes men) protested to gain the right to

vote, get an education, and other things they didn't have or still don't

have. In the video, " Attack on women's rights in Afghanistan" on CNN

news, Fawzia Koofi says that the law that protects women from violence

is slowly going away but the reporter for CNN News, Christiane

Amanpour says that the U.S will try to protect all women's rights around

the world.

Each day 4 women die from abuse, but you can stop this. You don't

have to donate thousands of dollars ( you could but you...