Sexism Persuasive Speech

One in four women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime. One in four. Every six days one woman will be killed by her partner, the one she trusts the most. Every six days. Fifteen point four percent of CEO positions are held by women. Eighty-four point six are given to men. For every one dollar a man makes, a woman will make seventy-two cents. Twenty-eight percent less than her male counterpart. Twenty-six percent of MP’s are women. Seventy-four percent are men. Why? Why in a country where women make up fifty point four percent of the population, are women seen as less? Sexism. It is ingrained in our everyday life, it has not faded or diminished or disappeared. We live in a country where a thirteen year old girl cannot walk down the road without being honked at, and a forty-five year old woman cannot walk from her car to her house without being in fear. And yet people tell me there is no
It’s a big one, but is just the tip of the iceberg. I brought up a few statistics earlier, about how women make up under sixteen percent of CEO positions in Canada (Catalyst, 2016), and how women make up only twenty-six percent of the senate -that was big news by the way (Anderson, 2015). Half the population, got one quarter of the power, hooray! I just want to reflect on those facts, for the next minute or so. Women are extraordinarily underrepresented in our government and in our workforce. It is very rare in our society, in Canada -the land of the free and the equal- for women to be given positions of power. That is teaching young girls and young boys that women are not powerful. But that is not true, teaching children that women are weak is like teaching them to run before they can walk, it’s