Women have it easier overall in the U.S.

It is a fact that women in this country are indeed underrepresented in a lot of "top" careers. But, the common misconception is that this is based on discrimination. The real culprit is that women lack the confidence, are more prone to shift ambition from career to family, and simply choose to underachieve due to established gender roles. In other words, many women do (sometimes even subconsciously) prefer to be a "house wife" than compete with men as "bread winners." As i pointed out a couple times, women are given more than ample opportunity. Particularly with this wave of open minded, tolerate perspective of the 21st century, it's quite unreasonable to assume that the majority of employers are just sexist. While that excuse may account for certain cases,economics professor Lise D. Vesterlund, found that: "Part of the reason that we"re seeing this very large gender gap in willingness to compete is coming from the fact that men are just a lot more overconfident than women," Vesterlund said. "It"s not that women are underconfident " It"s just that they"re not as overconfident as the men." When the research participants were asked where they thought they ranked among their group of four, three out of four men thought they were the best, even though, given that men and women were equally good, a man only had a one-in-four chance of actually being the best in his group. Vesterlund found that of those who thought they were the best, only about 50 percent of the women chose to compete for the money. In contrast, 90 percent of the men who thought they were best chose that payment system. "The bottom line is, despite having this group of people with equal abilities, we end up seeing very few of these high-performing women actually winning the competition," she said. (http://www.utimes.pitt.edu...) Further still, Stanford economist Thomas Sowell postulated an equally plausible theory saying: "Maybe the biggest reason is biology. Women make up 50% of the workforce but give birth to 100% of the babies. And if women choose to have children, their incentives change and this affects their choices of jobs, careers, continual service and hours spent on the job. The New York Times reported that among Yale alumni in their forties, only 56 percent of the women still worked, compared with 90% of the men. It goes without saying that traditionally men do not face the same incentives of biology and child rearing as women. ("http://www.realclearmarkets.com...) To further support the claim that women are actually at an academic advantage, a recent study shows that : "Today, women outnumber men on 57% of campuses and enjoy a 3:2 ratio overall. By 2020, men"s enrollment is projected as low as 41.4%, down from 57.7% in 1970. By then, millions more women than men will have earned college degrees." (http://collegestats.org...) Now addressing poverty, short of conducting a study personally, i doubt either of us are going be able to prove the most accurate data as several of the sources i found show different figures In favor of females as the lesser of the two poverish demos. examples: (http://www.nationalhomeless.org...) (http://www.endhomelessness.org...). Regardless, even if we are to accept that poverty is slightly higher than men, we could also explain this is relative to context. Men are much more likely to die or be incarcerated, so by default, there 'could' be more surviving "free" women. examples: "In 2011, men had a suicide rate of 20.2, and women had a rate of 5.4. Of those who died by suicide in 2011, 78.5% were male and 21.5% were female." (https://www.afsp.org...) HIV male to female ratio: 39,000 to 10,000 (http://www.avert.org...) "Globally, the male homicide rate is almost four times higher than for females (9.7 versus 2.7 per 100,000) and is highest in the Americas (29.3 per 100,000 males)" (http://www.unodc.org...) "Male-Female Occupational Death Gap Is 13 to 1" (https://answers.yahoo.com...) Drug abuse, military, prision, etc, etc.. they only area where death and injury are even close is cancer. which by the way men are more likely to contract some form of. (http://www.businessweek.com...) (http://skincancer.epubxp.com...) In response to rape, society (and perhaps even common sense) will have you believe that women are raped and sexually assaulted far more than men. While this does seem possible and simply feels likely, it really is hard to truly get an accurate account because of the two points i stated in my previous arguments.: Men are less likely to report sexual assault, and women receive less scrutiny in the eyes of the law. "With the cooperation of the police agency of a small metropolitan community, 45 consecutive, disposed, false rape allegations covering a 9 year period were studied. These false rape allegations constitute 41% the total forcible rape cases (n = 109) reported during this period. These false allegations appear to serve three major functions for the complainants: providing an alibi, seeking revenge, and obtaining sympathy and attention." (http://falserapearchives.blogspot.com...) "Dr. Charles McDowell, formerly of the US Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, discovered that 27% of Air Force women who claimed they had been raped later admitted making false accusations of rape." (http://www.falserape.net...) Women, apparently quite often, lie about such charge. While it is reasonable to suggest that, this would be a very unlikely choice of a lie for a man to make. To address prostitution, i will say that it is indeed a very high risk job. But, thanks to modern technology, the dangers are substantially lower than pre-21st century standards. Craigslist alone is a huge leap in convenience, and (to some degree) safety in selling sex. This venue allows women to the power to discuss the details of what she's offering. Despite my previous statistics, the world as a whole (America included) is definitely becoming less violent.(http://www.huffingtonpost.com...)(https://www.ted.com...)( http://theconversation.com...). So, While blindly meeting someone online is still quite dangerous, the probability of harmful misfortune is becoming more and more relatively low. And once again, At least the option is still there if a woman wants to take that gamble. As for men, you're probably more likely to earn more begging than attempting to sell sex. However, to counter the prostitution situation, i'd like to mention military service. This, not only is seen as a male career, but not long ago was not even an option for women. However, many men (myself included) found this to be one of the few options we have available to somehow grab decent footing in life, and carve out a better future. Like prostitution, a large percent of males don't genuinely desire to serve but rather enlist as a means to an end. To reap the benefits included. Unfortunately, as beneficial as enlisting can be, there is the probability of deployment. In such, there is a high chance of both physical and mental harm and even death. And, while we are moving toward equality, women have long been banned from combat positions and to this day are persuaded not to accept one. Therefore being placed in situations where death/injury are probable is far more likely for a male soldier. In closing, i'd like to clarify that I never claimed that life was easy. Any of us could die at any moment for no apparent reason. We could lose a job simply as a result of downsizing, and fall into poverty via mismanaged personal finances. Women have come a long way, particularly in the UK and USA. Although we still aren't quite seen as equals, i am confident that when you objectively look at both male and female data in regards to education, employment,conditioned treatment, stable finance, health, and opportunity, Women have it easier in the United states.