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Essay / Gender Equality and Equality - 747
It is shocking how something as absurd as pregnancy discrimination still happens. It's 2015, while cell phones have the ability to respond to humans and valuables can be secured with just a fingerprint, pregnant working women still can't be accommodated. In one case, a pregnant employee at a Walmart in Kansas was fired for asking if she could take a bottle of water with her while she worked. Another reason women are treated disparately is because they are paid less than men. Women earn 79 cents for every dollar a man earns, representing a gender wage gap of 21 percent. Furthermore, sexism remains a major problem in a woman's life. It’s abhorrent how casual sexism has become something women have to get used to. When girls are “stopped” in the street, they are taught to ignore rude remarks, instead of defending their gender. Moreover, whether in jest or in seriousness, there is not a single woman in this world who has not heard: "Women belong in the kitchen", or "Girls can't be pretty and intelligent”, or one of the others. many other sexist remarks. And these comments are not only completely stereotypical but also outrageously vulgar and