Have women truly achieved equality?

[theHandpuppet]

The statistics are startling and sad.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100823/EDIT03/8220354/-Have-women-achieved-equality-

Have women achieved equality?
9 women discuss power and equality 90 years after gaining the right
(This article first appeared in The Sunday Enquirer, Aug. 22, 2010.)

A century ago, suffragette Susan B. Anthony warned, "There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."

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• While women make up more than half the workforce, they lead just 12 of the Fortune 500 companies and 25 of the Fortune 1000 companies - a shrinking number from five years ago.

• A majority of the population, women hold just 17 percent of Congressional seats, ranking the U.S. 85th in the world in the percentage of women serving in the national legislature.

• Three in four state legislators are male, and 93 percent of big-city mayors are male, as are 44 of 50 governors.

MORE....

Make sure you read the stats on the right hand of the page.

[Sherman A1]

1. Short Answer

No

[hlthe2b]

2. Hell No...

[ismnotwasm]

4. What you said n/t

[msanthrope]

3. No. n/t

[texastoast]

5. No, but we are getting there

It's time for the next generation to step up, though I don't plan to stop working for it until I'm pushing up daisies.

[Solly Mack]

6. k/r

[Starry Messenger]

7. Ha!

No.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. No. And I mean financially, socially, societally, and vocationally.

[Ex Lurker]

9. it's coming. Females make up over half of US college enrollment now

including professional schools. Maybe they'll do a better job than the men did, although they are humans too, so they have that working against them.

[Warpy]

10. It's the height of irony that most of the high powered, well funded

women candidates out there this year are GOP. Apparently Republicans think they can overcome the gender gap by pushing a lot of crazy church ladies out there, that women will vote for anything with a vagina.

You'd think the Palin debacle would have given them a clue.

Women vote for white male Democrats for the same reason people of color do: Republicans are simply catastrophic for anyone who isn't a rich, white, Protestant male.

[MilesColtrane]

11. No

It's pretty obvious without citing statistics.

"If you don't believe me take a look to the one you're with." - J. Lennon

[JustAnotherGen]

12. Nope

I occasionally post in the forums directed towards feminism. I've said it before, I'll say it again:

Without equal pay (Paycheck Fairness Act and ALLLLL that is within it) we are not equal.

So much b.s. that women encounter goes away when we make a DECENT dollar for a hard days work.

Until then? Nice try boys - I'm not buying your b.s. about 'progress'. The average woman will lose out on between 700K and $2 million dollars in her lifetime - JUST because she goes to work with a vagina. not fair.

[Recursion]

13. Nope. But women rule academia now

Particularly the humanities and life sciences. Not sure what to make of that.

[valerief]

14. Does a bear shit on a toilet? nt

[Romulox]

15. WEALTHY women may not be equal to WEALTHY men, but...

WEALTHY women are still far and away better off than poorer people of any gender.

All this crap about CEOs is written by somebody who spends a lot of their time in a very wealthy echo chamber.

[Arugula Latte]

16. Of course not.

[Iggo]

17. Bwa ha!

:spray:

Close, but no.

[Merlot]

18. Yes, women are equal to men. Intellectually, emotionally.

They just don't get paid the same, or get as many opportunities in the work place. Oh, and society still thinks it's ok to degrade them in ways that they could never do to blacks or hispanics.

[bluethruandthru]

19. I think Mad Men should be required viewing for

anyone under 40. It's scary to see what the workplace was like for women in the 60's. It's definitely much better now...but some things haven't changed much. All we can do it keep pushing.

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. no

[TheKentuckian]

21. I'm thinking the paychecks and at home work load say no

The crazy ass Abortion laws popping up in certain areas should say something too.

There has been progress though for sure. The looming problem would seem to be that once many women make it to the top they pull up the ladders or have them kicked over.

What is up with all these right wing women? Especially the powerful women.