Synthesis Essay Women

499 Words1 Page

There are many different reasons to ways people think that women have less right than men when it comes to the workplace, how they're treated, and the things they can’t do. Many of these things ate do to race or other things. I do not believe that women have less right than men in today's world and it is because there are many laws written just for woman to be able to do what the need and want to do. They are treated different, but they are treated better in every way.

To begin, woman have many laws written so they can do what they want. Many people would say that woman have a lot less right than men do, and by reading the documents i would say so to, but two documents were written 150+ years ago and a lot has changed. Such as there are so …show more content…

Women are treated different in the way that they are helped out of cars, given jackets to keep warmer, and they are helped in any way they usually need hence the word chivalry being used as a word to describe that manner of acting. If a woman doesn't want to be treated that way i do not know what is wrong with them.
In the poetic speech “Aint I A Woman” by Sojourner Truth it is said “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?” this show that man do think of themselves as helping women but this is more a document about segregation due to race than to anything else. She is not treated different because she is a woman, she is treated different because she is african american.

Last but not least, the wage gap between men and women. There is a wage gap in the amount being paid to men women but this is for a totally different reason. Man have a tendency to work overtime more than women, that's how they get paid more. Men are also more likely to get dangerous jobs such as a construction worker or a firefighter. This has caused more money to be paid to men. There is also the equal pay act of 1963 with says it illegal for employers to pay a woman less than what a man would receive for the same

Open Document