The purpose of this post is to bring to light some of the injustices women face; specifically, I plan to look at the gender-wage gap, women in business, and women in politics.
The Wage Gap:
The Gender Wage Gap is the difference between wages paid to women and men. Today, the United States is home to a $0.21 wage gap meaning that for every dollar men make, women on average make only $0.79.
Unfair? Absolutely. But that number is artificially skewed high based on the combination of different groups of race. Let me break it down. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW), Hispanic/Latina women earn only $0.54, American Indian/ Alaskan Native $0.59, African American $0.64, white $0.78, and lastly Asian women at $0.90 when compared to a dollar of the white male. Women should be appalled.
One of the only occupational statistics with women “better off” than men is the unemployment rate in which White, Black, and Asian women experience less unemployment than men of the same race. (Link to data can be found here.) I am curious to see if the wage gap and the lower unemployment rate are coincidentally linked or due to women’s labor being cheaper; But alas there is no data.
Women in Business:
Yesterday in the New York Times, the article Why Aren’t Women Doing Better on Wall Street? made me sick.
“…when I opened up a pizza box to find condoms instead of pepperoni slices.”
“I also didn’t mention the ‘moo’ sounds that traders made when I headed to the nurse’s office with a breast pump, or the colleague who on a dare drank a shot of the breast milk I had stored in the office fridge.”
Thankfully, the article stated “Hundreds of millions of dollars have been paid out to Wall Street’s victims of gender inequality and harassment,” but money doesn’t necessarily patch the emotional bullying that occurred.
In our society Women are NOT welcome in business. Women are NOT worthy of equal pay. How pathetic is that?
Consider Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg. Sandberg notes that success and likeability are trade-offs for women (take a look at her brief interview here). The atrocities that women face in the business world are blood-boiling, especially because we KNOW they are occurring. Women in business resemble turning away from a choking victim because you don’t want to do the Heimlich maneuver; you know the individual is choking, but it isn’t your problem (but it is).
Women in Politics:
Hillary Clinton is a Bitch. If you haven’t heard it, you are probably hanging around the “correct” people. (“Correct” meaning feminists who wish to live in a society with gender equality.) If you want to hear it, just visit the website http://hillarythebitch.com/.
Are we ready for a “bitch” in the White House? Rapper T.I. publicly stated “Not to be sexist but, I can’t vote for the leader of the free world to be a woman.” Further clarifying with, “…just because, every other position that exists, I think a woman could do well. But the president? It’s kinda [sic] like, I just know that women make rash decisions emotionally…”
T.I. is basically saying “Not to be sexist, but a woman couldn’t do what a man does. I am not saying that men are superior, but just, you know, better.” What the hell? “Not to be sexist?”
Besides T.I.’s nonsensical statement, there is obvious animosity expressed toward Hillary because she is a woman. Frankly, there is animosity toward women popping up all across the political spectrum.
For example, Trump is victim blaming with his tweet “26,000 unreported sexual assults [sic] in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?”
In 2013, twenty-two republican, male senators voted against the Violence Against Women Act (including Senator Ted Cruz).
Mike Huckabee stated “…if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” I can only assume what that “whole thing” is in reference to.
Politically, I am not one to claim that there is a republican war on women (I am leaving such claims to the media), but consider the following two graphs.
The above graph shows that states with the greater percentage of democratic votes in the 2012 Presidential election have the smallest wage gap. For example, Washington, DC has the highest wage comparison ($0.90 for each $1.00 a white male makes) and had the highest percentage points of votes cast toward the democratic candidate. On the contrary, Utah has the second worst wage gap ($0.67 for each $1.00 a white male makes) and the lowest number of votes cast toward the democratic candidate.
Here, we can see the results more clearly. This graph ranks states by their gender wage gap indicating large wage gap states have a high percent of republican votes and small wage gap states have a high percent of democrat votes. Furthermore, the downward sloping line indicates a correlation between the more democratic votes and the smaller the wage gap. (Note: these graphs are indicative of correlation between Republican votes and gender-wage inequality and should not be interpreted as causal links.)
Conclusion:
It seems that the United States is not ready for strong leadership (in business or politics) without a phallic structure between the legs. More specifically, it seems that there is a certain political party that is fully unprepared for such leadership.
BUT GOOD NEWS! According to the World Economic Forum in November, by the year 2133 (118 years), the wage gap should be closed (118 years ago, the diesel engine and bicycle were patented).
Thoughts?
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