Sexism Essay

Jill Ruckelshaus, business woman, once said, “No one should have to dance backward all their lives.” She is right. Women should not have to dance backwards and follow a man’s lead but, have the right to turn around and lead. Sexism has a negative effect on society today because of the gender wage gap, violence increasing against women, and the national religion being undermined.

Sexism has a negative effect on society because women are not paid as much as men. Women are being treated as the lesser sex and that has now impacted how they are paid. Mary Ann Cooper wrote in her article Wage Gap for Women: Both Sides of the Story,

The Center for American Progress uses hard statistics to make its case. It says women who work full time year round continue to earn only about 77 percent of what men earn. The gap between the median wage for a man and that of a woman in 2010 was $10.784 per year. The gender wage gap gets larger with age and builds up over time. For voting women at the beginning of their careers – between the ages of 25 to 29 – the annual wage gap is about S1, 700. But for women in the final five years of their careers before retirement, the wage gap grows to a whopping $14,352. Over a 40-year career, the average woman will lose $4.31,000 to the gender wage gap. (1)

According to the Center for American Progress, working women will lose a lot of money due to the gender wage gap. The Center for American Progress also says, “. . . women are now earning the majority’ of college degrees. . .” (Cooper 2). Therefore, there is no excuse for why women earn less than men. Men and women have the same exact degrees and yet, they still make less. There is no reasoning to pay women less. Mary Ann Cooper also wrote,

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...then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. (New International Version)

God made Eve from Adam’s ribs as a “help meet at his side” (New King James Version, Genesis 2.18). He did not make women from man’s foot for him to walk all over and he did not make her from his head for her to rule over him. God took her from his side because they would be equals.

Men and women equality is something the nation will be fighting for forever. It will never be solved but hopefully the leaders of the nation will come to the realization that men and women came into the world the same way and will leave the world the same way so why should they be treated differently. It is time for women to turn around and lead the man in a dance for once because who knows, women might just do it better.