Women have less rights than men in the US.

Well, Equalityiskey, thank you for this very short-lived debate. I feel like you just got started and then disappeared into the ether. Where are you? I would actually like to develop this discussion a bit further. It is a very interesting topic and is worth consideration by all people in civilized society. I will begin with what I am familiar with in terms of wage inequality. It is, indeed, sad that one human being would be paid less, and on a systematic basis, for doing exactly the same work, than another human being! What could cause such disparity? Is it because of the male appendage? Speaking in a lower voice? I would certainly hope not! Is it the power of tradition? Maybe you can explain what is going on in a conspiratorial fashion against women. The two studies with which I am most familiar are from my wife's Sociology textbook which shows that on balance, after many struggles, women are still, in our "enlightened" age, and in America "the land of the free and the home of the brave" paid less. Let me quote: "...[D]uring the Great Depression in the 1930s, married women who took jobs were considered selfish and unpatriotic. Jobs were scarce. The unemployment rate rose to 25% and if a woman worked, she was seen as taking a job away from a man who needed it to support his family." 1 Later our country went to war and men were conscripted to fight in the military and women were needed in ammunition factories: "[W]omen were told that it was now their patriotic duty to help out in the war effort by going to work." 2 So, when it's convenient for your country to require you to work in a factory, you are expected to do so and when the jobless rates rise, you are seen as a bad person for taking a man's job. Let me ask you, equalityiskey, is that true equality for women? Right now, women get paid on average about 77% of what men get paid when they do exactly the same work. 3 That doesn't seem very fair. Perhaps, wage inequality is getting better and better all the time with everyone being enlightened. Nope. Not according to the latest data gathered by USA Today. "It's mind-boggling that decades after the signing of the"Equal Pay Act of 1963, women still earn less than their male counterparts, and recent research suggests the problem will be sticking around for quite a long time." 4 Does it get any better for women who are subject to violence or being violated? Shockingly, the textbook continues: "Police were not notified in approximately half of all the incidents of rape [against women]." 5 Also, only "15% of women...have no regular source of health care." 6 Really? At any rate, women most definitely have fewer rights in this country but that does not give any one an excuse to just shrug their shoulders. There is work to be done so that women have a voice in society and are not simply ignored. Well, I hope that you come back to visit and try out another debate. I would recommend probably adding a few more rounds to your debates in the future so that issues can be fairly developed and critiqued. Thanks again for the opportunity to engage with you! Laurence A. Basirico, et al., Soci 200: Liberty University (Redding, CA.: BVT Publishing, 2014) 309. Ibid. Ibid. http://www.usatoday.com... Basirico, et al, p. 303. Ibid.