The Feminist Movement has achieved all its goals, and is no longer needed, in the Western World.

The fact is, there is still no law enforcing equal pay for equal work. What's more, the gender wage gap becomes exponentially worse when a woman is also a person of color. According to the American Association of University Women, white women earn 78 cents to men's dollar, but black women only earn 64 cents to men's dollar. Hispanic and Latina women earn even less at 54 cents! This is just one of countless examples of women's rights that should be enforced in the UK and America.If we were to talk about other countries such as:" "Afghanistan: The average Afghan girl will live to only 45 " one year less than an Afghan male. After three decades of war and religion-based repression, an overwhelming number of women are illiterate. More than half of all brides are under 16, and one woman dies in childbirth every half hour. Domestic violence is so common that 87 per cent of women admit to experiencing it. But more than one million widows are on the streets, often forced into prostitution. Afghanistan is the only country in which the female suicide rate is higher than that of males."" "Iraq: The U.S.-led invasion to "liberate" Iraq from Saddam Hussein has imprisoned women in an inferno of sectarian violence that targets women and girls. The literacy rate, once the highest in the Arab world, is now among the lowest as families fear risking kidnapping and rape by sending girls to school. Women who once went out to work stay home. Meanwhile, more than 1 million women have been displaced from their homes, and millions more are unable to earn enough to eat."" "Nepal: Early marriage and childbirth exhaust the country's malnourished women, and one in 24 will die in pregnancy or childbirth. Daughters who aren't married off may be sold to traffickers before they reach their teens. Widows face extreme abuse and discrimination if they're labelled bokshi, meaning witches. A low-level civil war between government and Maoist rebels has forced rural women into guerrilla groups."If we were to talk about these countries then I'm sure that it is obvious, even to people against feminism, that women are not receiving equal rights. If you believe that it should stay this way in these countries then you may continue to debate this with me but judging from your argument in the second round I doubt that you interpreted this debate this way. Your resolution was not specific to any 1 country so I am not obliged to argue about 1. Feminism is a world wide movment that is happening everywhere. Yes, feminism may not be needed as much in more developed countries but as stated in R1 of this debate You will win the debate if you manage to prove feminism still has work to do, and I will if I prove feminism has achieved those goals already. Whilst, I admit that feminism has come a long way from where it once was as I have stated previously it still does have goals to achieve and if we fail to achknowledge these issues then we cannot meet these goals. Feminism may have started off as a small country specific movement it is now worldwide (the definition in R1 has no objections to this). We need to achknowledge that feminism still has goals to meet. It may have fufilled its original objections but in modern society new goals have risen, new problems have risen to face feminism. Feminism cannot stop now. It would make all the goals that they have worked towards pointless. Rebuttals will be in the next round and the final round. Sourceshttp://tinyurl.com...http://tinyurl.com...