Child Care Inequality

In the United States women are particularly blessed to have some of the best opportunities at life, yet there is still some discrepancy with the rights of their male counterparts. The first example of this is the sheer lack of representation in top management positions. In the workforce, it is known that men dominate high positions, but this can also be seen in political positions as well. As of January 2015, there are 84 female representatives serving the the House of Representatives of the 435 seats, which only accounts for 19.3% of the body. There are states in the U.S. that have never elected a woman to the House, which include Alaska, Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi, North Dakota, and Vermont. An even scarier fact that, that of the 20 women
This has a domino effect on mothers, especially those who are trying to work as well as care for a child. In April 2013, an article in the New Republic titled “The Hell of Child Care” was published about this exact happenstance. The point is brought up of how child care is unequal, and barely monitored when it comes to different regulations. The author of the article, Jonathan Cohn, goes on to mention that, “The lack of quality, affordable day care is arguably the most significant barrier to full equality for women in the workplace.” What this is saying is that the sub-par child care offered to mothers is preventing them from working, when this isn’t often the case for men. Another report by the Child Care Aware America found that the annual cost to care for a baby is more than the amount of in-state college tuition and different fees in thirty one states, causing it to be very difficult to afford. This can be connected to the Civil Rights movement in a few ways. Just as some young children are now, most African-American children were not given adequate care, specifically in the field of education. Schools were segregated, and black children were almost always given a lesser quality education. At the time was was also little to no existing opportunities for black mothers to be aided in child care. It seems that this ongoing problem among women
An overwhelming amount of women are victims of abuse in all shapes and forms across the country. One specific area of this abuse is sexual assault, a horrifying mistreatment towards women who have given absolutely no consent. Most recent data shows that women and even younger girls nationwide experience 270,000 rapes or otherwise sexual assults annually, which could be anything from forcible sodomy to child molestation. It is nauseating to even think of that this still goes on today, and there is not more being done to prevent it. Domestic violence is another huge part of the issue of violence against women. Women are not even safe within their own homes, and can fall victim to assault, whether it be sexual or by force. Statistics show that 24% of adult women have been physically assaulted by a partner at some point in their lives, and these disturbing facts correlate well with the treatment of African Americans. Many black people were brutally mistreated by white people, and had been long before the Civil Rights movement. Violence against them goes back to before the Civil War, where slavery was acceptable in the United States. Even during the Civil Rights movement itself, African-Americans were victims of white people, who did any and all to prevent the movement, such as burning down a known back person’s house, physical violence, and even