Women have it easier then men.

I will start the round by refuting Pro’s opening arguments. Each contention is summarized and bolded below, followed by my response. C1) Women feel less pressure to work. Women easily find mates. I’ll address women in the working world later this round. As for dating, Pro is working from stereotypes. In the developed world, both genders have freedom over their mating choices and success is based on a multitude of genderless factors (e.g. attractiveness, promiscuity, availability). Wealth and power, male-dominated traits, are also extremely important factors. Still, all of this pales in comparison to the real issue at hand.Outside of the developed world, millions upon millions of women still have no say when it comes to picking a husband, having children, or experiencing freedom or happiness in their relationships [1]. These societies treat women as property to be owned and abused at a whim. As one set of cultures treats the genders equally and another set treats women as second-class citizens, women clearly suffer the tougher existence overall. C2) Men face the dangers of war, police work, and physical occupations. First of all, millions of women are raped, kidnapped, and killed as the result of war, the vast majority of whom are innocent civilians [2, see: pg 2-6]. In any case, what my opponent is describing here institutionalized sexism. Women want equality; the military is filled with females and they continually battle for equal footing in the working world. The problem here is discrimination against women based on biased gender roles. Keep in mind that taking on dangerous occupations is completely voluntary. At least it is for men. As Pro points out, women don’t have that option. C3) Women can sell sex. Women benefit from divorce. Does anyone truly believe that a woman’s ability to sell sex for money means they have easier lives? Stripping and prostitution are dangerous, pitiable professions that only demonstrate society’s over-sexualization of women. Pro’s claim that men lose everything in divorce is a baseless myth. Alimony is based on income, not gender, and men receive it all the time [3]. The fact that women receive alimony more often than men is evidence that the wage gap exists and needs to be remedied. C4) Women can be bad in bed. This is pretty silly. No one is ‘allowed’ to be bad at sex and if you are, you probably won’t be having much of it. If Pro decides to pursue this, I eagerly await his evidence. C5) Chivalry means men do more for women. Chivalry is as antiquated and dead as the knights who first upheld it. Stories abound of its absence in modern society [4]. Even when someone does open a door or pull out a chair, how does that compare to real world problems like the global abuse, disadvantages, and discrimination of women? The answer is chivalry isn’t a blip on the radar. C6) Men are the protectors.Men undertaking physical tasks is based in the fact that they are generally bigger, stronger, and better combatants than women (all points in favor of men). As for men acting as protectors, the women trampled by men during this month’s sinking of the Costa Concordia might disagree [5]. Did I mention that chivalry is dead?C7) The legal system is easier on women. Pro’s makes no case here. The article on prison sentences found only a 2 month difference between genders and still couldn’t rule out variables like “victim and judicial demographics, judicial bias and accomplice status. [6]” The sources on family court bias read like rants against the system and provide zero evidence of any gender bias. Compare those with my numerous sources last round naming countries where it is legal for men to marry child brides, obtain automatic custody and property rights, and freely perform atrocities on women and it becomes very clear who the legal system favors. C8) Women have more social assistance options. Everyone receives social assistance. If there is an inequality, Pro must prove that. C9 & C10) Young, single, childless women earn more money. Women have more familial rights. I’ll address these points below. Defense of My Case1. Financial InequalitiesPro’s case against the wage gap, including his claim that most women idolize singers and models, is poor. The fact that some women make more money than some men does not change the fact that the global average favors men significantly. Pro ignores the additional familial obligations of women, the fact that women work more combined hours than men, and the numerous countries that ban women from working in the highest paid fields. Such restrictions forcibly limit female earning potential and increase their chances of subsistence-level work. The fact that over 50% of all working-age women are unemployed and 70% of all those living in poverty are women cannot be due to them all losing their husbands to war and jail. Pro just pulls that explanation out of thin air. I am talking about hundreds of millions of women all over the world. The only answer that works for such a magnitude is the damning combination of unbalanced wages, discriminatory hiring policies, and unfair familial burdens women face every day. 2. Relationship Inequalities“Don’t get pregnant” is not an argument. Unless my opponent advocates the death of our species, he realizes that women must have children. No amount of preparation can negate the physical, emotional, social, and financial risks and detriments that only women will face. If men wish to take equal responsibility in handling familial matters after the children are born, absolutely nothing is stopping them. The fact that this still isn't happening simply means that women continue to get the short end of the stick. For all his complaints about the U.S. legal system in regards to domestic violence, Pro and his sources concede that women are more often the victims and are injured far worse than men. Once you include domestic abuse in third world countries, where men regularly beat, rape, and kill their wives with no repercussions, it is clear that women suffer more from domestic violence. In order to resolve the fact that women work more than men, Pro suggests that women either simply ask men to do more (I’m guessing this has been tried before) or ignore it because men can be tired after work. Everyone is tired after work, that’s why it’s called work. The fact is women, on average, work more but make less. It’s a gender inequality and one that makes a woman’s life harder. 3. Societal InequalitiesPro’s source on females in politics reveals that less than 20% of the world’s parliament members are female and only a single country has more female parliament members than males. When combined with my own data on politic inequalities, it is no surprise that so many countries, including the U.S., maintain chauvinistic and discriminatory laws. In his most devastating concession, Pro drops all of the global atrocities carried out against women every year. Honor killings, rapes, stolen children, millions of female babies abandoned - Pro drops them all. He only says that men have it just as bad in third world countries. The entire point of this argument is to prove otherwise. These acts are carried out against women alone and nowhere in the world do men suffer those or similar abuses [7]. ClosingPro's arguments do not stand up to scrutiny. Each is either based on stereotypical misconceptions or backfires completely and supports the Con position. My strongest arguments have gone unchallenged and the resolution is currently negated. ReferencesA note on sources: I ask that Pro specify the relevant sections on longer articles. It is inappropriate to expect hundreds of pages of material to do the arguing for him. 1. http://tinyurl.com...2. http://tinyurl.com...3. http://tinyurl.com...4. http://tinyurl.com...5. http://tinyurl.com...6. http://tinyurl.com...7. http://tinyurl.com...