Argumentative Essay About Women

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Why Women?
Throughout mankind’s brief history, an easily observable multifaceted male power slant has stymied human potential, gaining stability in neither fact nor philosophy. Females are treated as inferior in almost every aspect of society. The need for male supremacy in civilization found its way into obsolescence during the age of early pastoralism, long before the common era. Nonetheless, the majority of the world persists to oppress women for a myriad of reasons, all of which unjustifiable and antiquated.The effects of female oppression, while instantaneously beneficial to men, are ultimately detrimental to mankind.
In nature, gender roles are not at all specific, and females often dominate males. The animal kingdom provides countless …show more content…

This initial order did not necessarily stymie women and served arguably as an evolutionary benefit. Babies born of well fed, sedentary, unstressed mothers made for a much lower mortality rate than children born of mothers made to toil and work through pregnancy. A less active female lifestyle is easily justified by these terms, as it doesn't spell subjugation to a lesser position than men, but rather a heightened responsibility in carrying children. One could even argue that, in current times, pregnant women should avoid placing themselves in positions of stressful manual labor. This concept of keeping women protected while with child is completely justifiable. The issue arises when such attitudes bleed over into the bulk of a woman’s life.
Currently, sexism exists all over the world, in varying types and degrees with respect to culture. The historical roots of sexism run deep in many societies. Just a century ago, American women were not permitted suffrage. A century prior to that, the vast majority of women weren’t allowed to own property. Women in Saudi Arabia aren't allowed either of those things to this day. The many complexities surrounding women’s rights vary dramatically throughout civilization’s amalgam of peoples and credos. One must study a demographic’s history, tradition, and religion in order to fully …show more content…

The traditional pressure to keep women below men was almost completely absent as of the early common era in that many women in the Middle East had more rights than those in the west. It was not until long after the death of the great prophet Muhammad and the fall of the Abbasid caliphate that polygamy ran wild and women took up the veil. The role of religion in women’s oppression cannot be overstated, especially when so easily visible in a society with no supportive secular

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