Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, and
Consequences Discrimination Against Women By: Delaney Ahn &
Grace Sullivan
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Women and the War Women were often thought of as weak. They
were supposed to stay at home and take care of the family. It was
thought of a mans job to fight. Studies prove that women actually
had a longer pain tolerance than men because of the long, hard work
at home. The higher ranking men in the army thought that women
would give up and not succeed in their mission.
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Soon women felt that they had a right to serve for their
country just like men did. After a lot of debate, women werent
given a big part in the war, but were still given missions to fly
aircraft. Amelia Earhart inspired many women to fly and not worry
about what men said or thought of them. They were also allowed to
be medical assistants. They didnt have the main role of doctor but
they were allowed to help them.
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Verbal Verbal abuse is one of the most common forms of abuse
used against women. You often dont hear about many situations of
verbal abuse because people are unsure when this happens to them.
Verbal abuse can also be performed electronically. Electronic abuse
is becoming more and more common because of chat rooms and social
networks.
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Verbal abuse destroys self confidence for many women. If the
verbal abuse comes from someone close who loves them, then these
hurtful words must be true. That is one of the many feelings that
verbally abused women have. Women often dont seek help because
their self-esteem is so low.
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Physical Physical abuse occurs more in couples. You can see the
results of physical abuse with your eyes instead of seeing the
emotional differences in a woman who has been verbally abused.
Physical abuse is normally used as a threat or a punishment.
Sometimes it could be fighting over money.
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Mental Mental abuse is commonly caused by the other two forms
of abuse. Lets say a woman was beaten, she would start looking at
everyone differently, with fear. Women are often less social when
mentally abused.
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There are over 3 billion women alive today in the world. 1 in 3
women will be abused sometime in there life in some way.
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Job Offers InformationManWoman Years of Experience35
Children?NoYes Married?Yes This table above shows information that
they might ask at a job interview. Believe it or not, with the
woman having more experience than the man, she still has a lower
rate of getting the job!
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Even though we have improved a lot in workplace discrimination,
most women still remain at lower level jobs. Young women without
children are still at a disadvantage because their employer is
afraid that they will take too much time on maternity leave if they
become pregnant.
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Salary Income ManWoman $1.00$0.80 The table above shows
salaries that are based on the same job & experience. Men with
children appear to get a pay raise when women with children lose
money. Women lawyers make 59% of what a man lawyer makes.
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Employment A white man is 3 times as likely to get a job than a
black woman. White men are 3 times as likely to get the job as
manager than a black woman. Although half of the managers are
women, only 16% of women are higher ranking specialists.
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Women used to have a lower chance of going to college. They
were supposed to stay home and take care of the house. Professor's
of colleges didnt want women attending their campuses because they
thought that the men would be distracted and the men wouldnt
complete their work.
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Women had a hard time getting jobs because of education
discrimination. A lot of the time, to get a good job, you need a
college education. Many fathers thought Why bother educating our
girls if the will never make it anyway?
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There are 100 million children that do not have access to
education. 60% of those children are female. In the world, 960
million adults are illiterate. Over 2/3s of them are women.
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Children's Sports Studies show that 6 year old girls think of
boys to be more sportier than themselves. That can be a start of
low self-esteem. Girls thought that activities such as martial arts
and team sports were only for boys.
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College Sports Men thought that women shouldnt be allowed to
participate in sports because they werent tough enough. After women
found out that sports were not just for men they started wanting to
be involved with these activities. Many supporters say that being
active in sports help build self-esteem and complete their
accomplishments.
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Olympic Games At the Olympic Games in 1992, 35 countries had no
women athletes in their teams. One of those teams refused to walk
behind a Spanish woman athlete at the opening ceremony.
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Discrimination against women is unfair and un-American, but
unfortunately it is still going on!