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EnricoPallazzo on 01 September 2020
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Jaicee said:

I'm probably committing social suicide by dedicating a whole topic to women's issues on an otherwise all-male board, but oh well.

The right of women to vote was enshrined in the U.S. Constitution a century ago this year. (Specifically as of August 26th.) A century later, 64% of American women believe the U.S. hasn't gone far enough in the way of securing equal rights for women and 61% describe themselves as feminists. What's more, about half of American men seem to agree with the first view (as you can see at the first link.)

A majority of both women and men who believe that more needs to be done to advance equal treatment for women identify the following items as major obstacles thereto:

-Sexual harassment.
-Unequal legal rights.
-Different expectations society has for women and men.
-Not enough women in positions of power.
-Additionally, nearly half of women also identify family responsibilities as a major obstacle.

Overwhelming majorities of both women and men (82% of 73% respectively) today favor ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning discrimination on the basis of sex.

(See the first link above for this data and more.)

So what say you? Are women here in the U.S. or wherever you live treated equally in your view? Is there more work to do? Or...*sighs*...as I suspect may be a common opinion here on a practically all-male forum...is it your view that women are really just generally lazier, treated better than men, and simply too sensitive?

Let's see if we can have a productive discussion of this topic. Probably not (another thread of mine that's almost certain to get closed ), but just thought I'd try and see if we could get somewhere. Just in case I wasn't controversial enough already!

While I believe in some countries, especially poor countries, women are definitely treated as lesser human beings and suffer a lot of prejudice and need to have their future shaped by society, I believe in most of western rich countries this process have already finished and now feminists are chasing the wind. Women will never be equal to men because, well, they are biologically and mentally different and that is a good thing as it brings different views, aspirations and attitude to the world. And although the media in general wants to paint a different frame, men and women have a tendency to excel at certain activities.

Feminism today is not looking for equality anymore but rather to privileges. You want to be a mother of 3, a wife, a high tier management position in a large company and be beautiful and in shape at the same time? Sorry but probably you won't be able to do it at the same time and this is not sexist, it's just common sense.