Experience
/ USA
Women's
Rights & Interests Violated
Gender discrimination is a chronic malady in the United States.
According to a report of the Inter parliamentary Union in
January, women constitute only 12.9 percent of the total members
of the Us congress. The latest survey by the National
Women and police center showed that from 1990 to 1997, the
number of women in law enforcement departments across the
country increased by a mere 3-2 percent. One third of the 176
police organizations surveyed have no women as senior officers,
and none of the minority women in three-quarters of the police organizations
has been appointed as senior officer, according to a report in
USA today on April 4, 1999, women, who make up some 45 percent
of the US work force, earn on average only 75 percent as much as
men. African American Women only 65 percent, and Latino women
only 57 percent , reported Reuters on July 14, 1999, It also
said that earnings of women with higher education Background
equal only 76 percent of that of men. In the building sector,
the annual salary of a male employee amounts to US $ 29300,
while that for a female employee is US $ 21200.
The United States has poor labor rights protection and social
security for women. American women have only three months
of unpaid maternity leave, and are not allowed any time
off for breast feeding after they go back to work ,
according to a survey report of the International Labor organization
on the situation of labor protection for pregnant women in
152 countries, released in February, 1998. It also showed
that about 40 percent of the female employees with children
have no medical insurance.
Women are the main victims of domestic Violence, the US
Department of Justice estimated that there are at least 4.2
million cases of domestic violence in the country each
year, and 95 percent of the victims are women. During the
1992-97 period, the number of cases involving violence in
American service men's families was five times higher than
that in other families, with wives of domestic
violence, the deteriorating domestic violence has become
chief factor affecting the health and safety of American women.
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