Let’s Talk about Women Activism
By: Tylynn Smith
Tags: Women Activist, Womens Rights, Women Importance, Women In Business, Standtogether

Women activism isn’t women believing they are better than men or thinking they should have more privileges than men; however being a women’s activist is speaking on topics that should be talked about rather than being shushed about.

Not too long ago my brother and I discussed over women activists. His statement was, “Women and men should be equal.”

That’s what women activist are trying to accomplish, no matter what gender or sexuality, we are all speaking out on why we are not equal and how we all should be equal.

Example being, women aren’t paid the same as men in most businesses.

According to https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/03/24/482141/quick-facts-gender-wage-gap/, “An even larger consideration is the cumulative impact of the gender wage gap on all women working full time in the United States. Collectively, more than 55 million full-time working women earned an estimated $545.7 billion less than their male counterparts in 2019.”

If women and men should be equal, shouldn’t our payments be equal as well?

My brother later on declared on the behalf of men that, “Men are underpaid as well.”

Https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/an-economist-explains-why-women-get-paid-less/ justifies why women are being paid less than men, “For every dollar a man earns, on average a woman is paid 54 cents. Based on today’s rate of progress, it will take 202 years for this gap to close, according to the World Economic Forum.”

Chart by World Economic Forum shows:

Men may be underpaid within some companies such as Google but are they truly being underpaid?

WARNING SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE!

Women activist don’t just talk about women being underpaid but they also talk about women being sexually harassed, raped, and sexually assaulted.

Https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/21/587671849/a-new-survey-finds-eighty-percent-of-women-have-experienced-sexual-harassment acknowledges, “It found that 81 percent of women and 43 percent of men had experienced some form of sexual harassment during their lifetime.”

Sexual assault, rape, and sexual harassment happen to everyone; however 1 and 6 women are raped or sexually assaulted while 1 and 10 men are raped, according to https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence.

Women activist don’t talk about men being raped as much, due to the fact and understanding that rape happens more to women rather than men along with the fact that women activist try to discuss more on the topic of women rather than men.

Feminist activist make real changes! For centuries activist of women have done protest, signed petitions, and have caused changes within the world!

August 26, 1920 because of women activist, women got the right to vote. In 1848, women got the right to own property. And in 1960 women started to enter in the workforce in huge numbers.

Yes, women activist do uplift women, not because they want women to overpower men or because they think they deserve better than men, but women activist uplift women because for centuries women have been seen as objects.

As always feel free to respond if you agree/disagree!!