The rape statistics are grossly exaggerated and have much more to do with race and socioeconomics than sex. If you are medium or upper class, odds are you won't know a woman who has been raped and you certainly won't know anywhere near 1 in 3. Go ahead, try to name 1 woman that has been raped for every 3 that you know. Try to name 1 for every 6. The issue is poverty--the number one cause of crime in every country--and just what some people count as rape in their statistics. It's not uncommon, for example, for people to count sex someone has later regretted to be rape. Besides all that, rape isn't an issue of sexism; no man or woman ever says "I'm going to rape a woman/man because they are a woman/man."thaluikhain said:
Your examples of world leaders and such is also outdated, as the coming generations are slowly replacing the older ones where sexism was the norm. You will find more women joining positions of power in the government than men. There may be more men in your local government, but go ahead and have a look at the number of new men compared to women. This also applies to other jobs, thanks to the previously shown massive difference in higher education levels, where women are dominate. Men are also more inclined to want to be leaders, so the change over is slower than in other fields, such as education, where women are much more prevalent than men.
The pay difference is an old myth and has been busted several times. Not only does it not happen (ask a male or female employee you know in the same job title how much they each earn and see if it's different) but the way the numbers were calculated was bias as it didn't take into account job types. For example, women are generally more likely to want a career in teaching, nursing or child care than men are. These are all generally low paying jobs, so women on average earn less than men because of the most common jobs performed by each sex, which is, again, changing.
