preview

Women Equal Rights

Good Essays

Throughout history, women always had to fight for their rights. As society grew and became more and more modern, but the idea of women having rights still seemed too far fetched. Woman in some countries are not allowed the simplest of things, such as having the right to drive or to decide if they do or don’t want children. As women, they have always had to fight for their rights as they were never handed to us like they were for men. The question still remains, why? Why are they the ones who must suffer and fight? Why are they the ones who are treated as less important than men? Then the possibility pops up, what is women had equal rights as men? How would our society be? Not only that, even if we are granted the right, why are we not treated equally. In America today, women no longer have to fight for the right to work, yet they do face another inequality issue, money. On average, a working woman makes $.75 for every dollar a man makes. Society fails to realize the impact women around the world makes on it. I have been taught a very young age that I should never divorce my husband, yet he can divorce me. In some countries, women don’t even have a chance for divorce, no matter how abusive their husband can get. Woman around the world are consistently deemed less important than men and are not given equal right for marriage, voting, and jobs.
It is not unheard of for countries to treat their women the way they treat their men. Countries like Switzerland and Sweden are giving

Get Access