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Women's Rights In America

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I remember in the 10th grade when my English teacher had us do a class poll. He told us to raise your hand if you believed that woman's in today's world are treated fairly. I was the only student to not raise her hand. Because I knew that woman in America might have a lot of rights but in the rest of the world women are treated as Second class citizens. The 19th amendment states “guarantees all American women the right to vote”. Most countries allow women to vote but I think it's sad that it took so long for many of these countries to give women a right that they deserve. Vatican City the home of the pope is the only place a women can not vote. This brings up the fact that religion is the main reason why women do not have many of the rights …show more content…

In many Muslim countries, mosque prohibits women voting in many board elections. Even in some Jewish communities women are not allowed to be elected for certain position of authority. I believe the fact that America allows anyone to believe in any type of religion is the reason why America is the one of best with making women's equal. Even though in America woman's do not get paid the same amount of money that a man can get for doing the same job and that certain politicians believe that they know what is best for the woman's body. This is still one out of a few countries where a woman can wear whatever she want and can express herself the way she want. I can drive a car, I can walk outside without needing to be with a man, I can marry who I want when I want and I can have any job I like. These are rights that every woman should have but just because of the fact that we are woman should not let us have any exclusion to God given rights. When we have countries in the world, where a little girl can get raped by her own country military officials and then stoned to death for speaking out about rape. America is great because people will listen to a little girl cry and do everything it can to make sure the predator get it

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