Woman face more challenges in Western society than men do

My pleasure Pro, it has been a great experience to debate such a triggering topic in a mature and factual manner. Typically such discussion turn into screaming matches and devolve into nonsense. My first point: a forward really is in response to your initial 29% stat. A sad truth is that feelings are not factual they are subjective. When organizations state long and loud that a group of people is oppressed, many begin to believe it, especially members of that group. Regardless of the truth. I am going to start with a short story. When I graduated college I went up to Massachusetts to further my education. I was up there alone with few friends for a long time. Studies kept me more than busy enough and needless to say I did not have the time to go out and make friends. One night I was too stressed out for my own good so I went to a local dive bar to get raging drunk. Sitting at this bar alone I noticed than down the row of bar stools was the most beautiful woman I'd seen. So I made my advances, and right now this woman I met alone in that bar is my wife, and the mother of my children. That is why woman get hit on. We, are animals, and we seek mates to reproduce and start families. Now if my wife hadn't been attracted to me that night it would have been sexual harassment, even though sex never came up. The only reason it wasn't sexual harassment was that she was attracted to me on some level. This just brings us to another challenge faced by men. You see men are not sexually harassed much because woman typically (and this is all just a generalization, not a rule) do not purse men, instead men purse woman. Many woman may not totally understand this but it is really difficult being a male in this situation. We find a potential mate and initiate the age old ritual of sparking up conversation. Now if rejected that means you, as a person, was not good enough. It is a massive blow to ones self esteem. In this modern age though getting rejected could lead to sexual harassment charges filed against you. So on top of being rejected and essentially told you are not good enough, you are also now a sex offender for engaging in a process that has existed throughout the course of human history. On a side note if this trend continuous we are going to see a total segregation of the sexes, but I digress. On to the pay gap. Ye old pay gap argument. I am going to do a list style from here on out 1. The statement "woman make 80 cents on the dollar compared to men" IS true 2. However this stat does not mean "If Jack and Jill have the same job, same hours, same experience Jill will make 20% less than him". Instead this stat just takes the average salary of all men, the average salary of all woman and compares them. 3. When you examine the highest paying fields in the US, men dominate 9 of the top 10. 4. Woman dominate subjects as well like social sciences, journalism, and many others- yet theses fields are towards the top of the lowest paying fields. 5. It's not as though this is discrimination, in fact woman are 2:1 more likely to be hired in STEM fields then men. 6. It's also not discrimination from an education standpoint and woman are taken into college with lower SAT/ACT scores than men and are 33% more likely to graduate. 7. An argument could be made than fields dominated by woman pay less simply because they are dominated by woman but it is not true. A person in a given field is only paid what they are worth, and what the field is worth. 8. Woman ages 20-30 now out earn men 1.02 to 1.00 in the UK. This is because woman have taken an interest in engineering, medicine, technology, law, business administration, STEM, and other well paying fields. 9. Men do work more overtime than woman. This is not discrimination this is men wanting to work overtime more than woman do. 10. The massive study by the neutral 3rd party CONSAD found that the pay gap is not due to any form of discrimination. I quote: "This study leads to the unambiguous conclusion that the differences in the compensation of men and woman are the result of a multitude of factors and that the raw wage gap should not be used as the basis to justify corrective action. Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be almost entirely the result of the indivudal choices being made by both male and female workers." Ok now children. These stats are true, but no one is forcing woman to give up work and raise a child. That is a woman's choice. And in 82% of divorce cases woman keep the children. No one is forcing any of this, these are choices made my woman and families- plain and simple. In addition many woman will claim up and down that the greatest joy of their life was raising children. Therefore I fail to see this as that much of an issue. Is it a challenge to raise children? Yes, of course. Is it a challenge to provide for your family if your wife works part time or not at all? Yes it is. Rape and sexual assault is a terrible crime. The only other crime that even compares in murder. I said at the start I do not want to demean the challenges faced by woman because woamn do face challenges. My argument is not that men's lives are more difficult than woman's. My argument is that both men and woman face unique but equal challenges. I cannot say rape does not exist because it does. I won't spit on rape victims and start quoting false rape statistics. Instead I will simply say that woman are more likely to be raped, and men are more likely to be murdered. These are unique but equal challenges. Reproductive rights: Viagra is a pill to treat erectile dysfunction which is a disorder. Birth control does not treat disorders and it a contraceptive. These are two totally different pills in totally different categories and cannot be compared. One treats a disorder, one stops babies from happening. Come on now.... The christian right is way outside of this debate and I'd bet me and you would agree on a lot about them. Either way I won't get into it. America was founded on the rights of religious freedom. To force religious organizations to cover contraceptives is forcing them to do something against their religion. That does not fly in America. But there are many many ways to get cheap or free contraceptives and see doctors as a female. Planned Parenthood, Teen Clinics, and the like exists to solely cater to woman's needs. Organizations such as this do not exist for men. Another point to make here, men's healthcare is horribly underfunded. Men have a shorter life expectancy than woman yet in 2012 883 million dollars went to funding for female healthcare, when only 200 million went to male healthcare. This is not a challenge faced in day to day life- no this is someone loosing years of their life. Since this myth persists that men are over privileged nothing is being done to close this disparity. No additional funding is being added and of all the discrimination mentioned above, nothing will be done. Because if a man says he is being discriminated against he is called a sexist and told to shut up. P.S: Round 4 is approaching, I never mentioned anything in rules so I wanted to ask you if you wanted to use round 4 to present arguments or if you would prefer to do closing statements. Your call either way! Doctors male vs female: http://kff.org... Government report on pay gap: http://www.bls.gov... Males vs female IT: http://www.forbes.com... CONSAD report: https://blog.dol.gov... Woman outearn men: https://www.theguardian.com... Woman more likely to have college degree: http://time.com...