Position Paper #3 - Depictions of Women and Minorities
The past hundreds of years have been bleak and inhumane for women and minorities. Of all 195 countries in the world, it is still illegal for women to vote in 2 of those, and 10 more countries that make it nearly impossible to vote. In 2020, the pandemic revealed how bad gender inequality is in all aspects of our society. One statistic showed that women were 24% more likely to lose their job, than men. At the current pace, it will take 250 years for women to earn pay equal to that of men. At the 2021 Commission on the Status of Women, Secretary-General António Guterres stressed that "We need to move beyond fixing women, and instead fix our systems." Which is a statement I could not agree more with. As depressing and real as all of the above information is, I would like to focus on the positive growth we've seen for women around the world. According to US News , these are the best 5 countries for women based on a survey taken earlier this year. Starting with number five,...