Violence of Woman and Girls

No more prevalent disenfranchise is where a women stands in today’s society, as she has been demeaned throughout time. Women have had high statures and continue to uptake them in political and economic influences in the world but they are still belittled by society. Women have faced innumerable challenges such as violence, powerlessness, exploitation, and marginalized all throughout the facts of history. The fact that women have faced this though out time seems like an endless cycle that repeats itself, sadly to say.

There are more women organizations that cater to the aid of women in the world than there are to those that cater to men. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “One in every four women and one in 10 men will experience domestic violence in their lifetime”. It is a clear fact that the statistics hold validity from such an international organization and establish a cruel reality that women face more violence than men.

Though records are collected on this dilemma, there is an underlining statement that needs to be addressed and that’s to those that aren’t reported. This concept addressed by Enrique Gracia, Professor of Society Psychology at the University of Valencia, is known as the “iceberg” of domestic violence, this proposition still relates to the collected data being that the tip of the iceberg; the 25%, are the ones that are sever enough to report opposed to what lays beneath. According to International Center for Research on Women, violence against women and girls is among the most universal and pervasive human rights violations, affecting at least a billion women across the globe. Violence against women and girls takes many forms, including physical and emotional abuse, forced and unwanted sex, early and forced marriage, female genital cutting, trafficking and deprivation of resources and rights. Women have access to higher education just as males but the fact of higher education women dwell compared to males. According to UNESCO Institute for Statistics, “girls are increasingly outperforming boys at all levels of education in a majority of countries, and yet women are still the vast majority of the world’s poor and disempowered”.

A vast majority of girls, regardless of how educated they are or where they live in the world, will encounter three formidable barriers to realizing their full potentials; marriage, motherhood, and masculine work norms. Forbes Global 2000 states that, the ” Marriage, motherhood, and masculine work norms operate together to dramatically reduce the time a woman has available for paid work, to inhibit her chances of success when she does work for pay, and to make the decision to forgo paid work, economic independence, and public influence the easier one.” Regardless of location, motherhood substantiates to the factors that women tend to the need of their children as to their husbands. The ideas of professions or trade are categorized at times based off of gender to where society constructs this world of job categorization. So influential are these three interacting forces that without their deactivation the educational gains that girls make can never be fully realized in adulthood anywhere in the world, and no country can fully capture the potential gains from women’s empowerment.

Donna Hughes, a renowned researcher in the area of Women’s Studies and woman’s advocate from the University of Rhode Island, claims: “A practice by which a person achieves sexual gratification, financial gain or advancement through the abuse or exploitation of a person’s sexuality. Sexual exploitation preys on women…. Sexual exploitation eroticizes women’s inequality and is a vehicle for racism and “first world” domination…”. Society is well aware that basic marketing on selling to the masses is by selling sex. The concept of women being exploited based on their physical appearance can be easy depicted by simply picking up a magazine and viewing women used to sell the product.

According to a report issued by the Center for American Progress, “in 2013 around 97 percent of full-time working women were in jobs that typically paid more to men for that same work.” A chief executive officer is deemed to be a male but based of Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Female chief executives earn only 69 percent as much as their male counterparts. Thus, these 245,000 female chief execs end up earning an average of $658 per week less than the 745,000 men in their profession. Overall, women still earned only 77 cents for every dollar men earned in 2012, according to new data.” These data that was collected by an institution that holds great validity can be juxtaposed to other countries that can demonstrate a more dark reality. According to The World Economic Forum, “[The institution] found that on average women across the world are paid just 63% of what men earn. There is not a single country where women are paid as much as men.” Regardless of where ever women are in the world will not get compensated the same as men in the workforce. Women in the world have and will continue to face the same constructs that they, the women, have encountered throughout time. The notion that women aren’t seen as the bread winners, the ones to hold power, seen as equals, or even alphas will continue without the aid of change. Personal input- We women strive to be the best and not fearful to challenges and those that oppose us only fire our passion to preserve but we will become change not by one voice but by the many that roam the world, past or present.

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