Hear Her Roar Summary

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Between “Hear Her Roar” by Rana Foroohar, which in 2009 was published in Newsweek and “Life on the Global Assembly Line” by Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes, among the first readings to recognize the importance of working women globally, we are able to realize how women in different regions of the country face everyday reality. In “Hear Her Roar”, it is presented to us that women have finally caught up with men and are leading financially independent lives, while in “Life on the Global Assembly Line” talks more about how women are still mistreated and looked at as they are lower than men. These two articles have the complete opposite views on women’s worth according to society. Rana Foroohar is a highly respected author. She is the …show more content…

After the recession, women earned an income of five trillion dollars. Today, women do not earn an income as much as men do, but Foroohar projects there to be a shift in the following numbers within the next few years. Worldwide, men’s income is around $23.4 trillion and women’s income is $10.5 trillion. Countries such as China and Vietnam have seventy percent of their women now working. Also, the same amount of women attends college and gets an education as men do. BCG, senior partner Michael J. Silverstein, states, “If you walk down the streets of Manhattan, London, or Frankfurt today and you ask one hundred single men and women between the ages 25 and 30 what they make, the women will make more.” (Foroohar, Rana. “Hear Her Roar”. New World Reader Fourth Edition. (2014): 155. Print.) It is said that the annual consumer spending should continue to get higher as young female professionals rise above men in their generation. In 2013, a study on Britain’s Parliament showed that whenever the female representation was at 18.2 percent, things that included the family, such as child care and education were getting a lot more money and attention. Uganda, Burundi, and Macedonia are just a few examples of countries that have 30 percent women legislatures. Men were earning an income at the rate of 5.8 percent while on the other hand; these women were earning an income of 8.1 percent. In 1992, India had female council leaders that participated in water projects close to 60 percent more than the male council

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