We live in a patriarchy (and not an equal society or matriarchy) because men hold the most power, authority, and wealth. I am going to focus on US only.
In government (2015 statistics):
Women in Congress currently hold 19.4% of 535 seats.
There are only 3 women in the US Supreme Court.
Women hold only 20% of the 100 seats in the Senate.
Women hold only 19.3% of 435 seats in the House.
Women hold only 25% of 312 statewide executive seats.
Women hold only 25% of 5411 seats in the State House/Assembly.
Only 24.3% of women hold 7383 seats in State Legislature.
Only 17% of 100 seats belong to women mayors in the 100 largest cities.
Only 18.4% of women hold 1393 seats as mayors in cities over 30,000.
In Media (2015 statistics):
Men were 73 percent of all Hollywood TV writers in 2012. Women were 27 percent.
Women television writers earned about 92 cents for every dollar that white male writers earned in 2012, a penny more than the 91 cents women earned in 2009.
Men writing for film accounted for 85 percent of all screenwriters. Women represented 15 percent. That compared to 17 percent in 2009 and meant that men screenwriters outnumbered women screenwriters by a more than 3 to 1 margin.
Women film writers earned 77 cents for every dollar earned by white male film writers in 2012, down from 82 cents in 2009.
The share of minority television writers rose to 11 percent in 2012 from 10 percent in 2009. But, by a 3 to 1 margin, white TV writers outnumbered minority TV writers.
Minorities represented 6 percent of film writers for the decade ending in 2009, when that rate fell to 5 percent. In 2012, the figure remained at 5 percent, which meant that minorities were outnumbered by 7 to 1.
While writers aged 41 to 50 got most of the gigs in Hollywood, that reality largely reversed itself once those writers turned 60.
69 percent male overall, and 77 percent male in the leadership ranks.
57 percent white, 34 percent Asian, 4 percent Latino, 3 percent bi-racial or multi-racial and 2 percent Black overall.
Of workers in tech jobs, 85 percent were male and 15 percent were female.
Of all those tech workers, 53 percent were white, 41 percent were Asian, 3 percent were Latino, 2 percent were bi-racial or multi-racial and 1 percent was black.
Of workers in non-tech sectors, 53 percent were male and 47 percent were female.
Of non-tech sector jobs, 63 percent were held by whites, 24 percent by Asians, 6 percent by Latinos, 4 percent by bi-racial or multi-racial persons, 2 percent by blacks and 1 percent by people of some other race.
70 percent of all workers were male and 61 percent of them were white.
Additionally, men accounted for 79 percent of Google executives, 83 percent of tech workers and 52 percent of its non-tech workers as of January 2014, the month for which Google calculated data it released to the public in August 2014.
75 percent of LinkedIn’s leaders were male.
Of all company leaders, 65 percent were white, 28 percent were Asian, 4 percent were Latino, 3 percent were bi-racial or multi-racial, and 1 percent each was black or some other race.
53 percent of all LinkedIn workers in the United States were white, 38 percent were Asian, 4 percent were Latino, 2 percent were black, 2 percent were bi-racial or multi-racial and 1 percent was of some other race.
83 percent of LinkedIn workers in tech jobs were male.
Racially, 60 percent of tech workers were Asian, 34 percent were white, 3 percent were Latino and 1 percent each were black, bi-racial or multi-racial, or some other ethnicity.
Of those in non-tech jobs, 53 percent were male and 47 percent were female. Racially, 63 percent of non-tech job-holders were white, 26 percent were Asian, 5 percent were Latino, 3 percent each were black or bi-racial/multi-racial and 1 percent was some other race.
Of Yahoo employees who were at least vice presidents or even higher up the corporate ladder, 77 percent were men, according to Figures Yahoo Chief Development Officer Jacqueline Reses released in June 2014.
Yahoo has a female CEO, Marissa Mayer.
Men held 85 percent of Yahoo tech jobs and 47 percent of non-tech jobs.
Yahoo provided a racial breakdown for its U.S. workforce only: 50 percent of employees were white, 39 percent were Asian, 4 percent were Latino, 2 percent each were black, of mixed race or did not disclose their race. In the C-suite of Yahoo’s U.S. offices, 78 percent of executives were white; 17 percent were Asian; 2 percent each were either Latino, of mixed race or did not disclose their race; and 1 percent was black.
Men comprised 70 percent of computer, mobile giant Apple’s workforce Apple reported that seven out of 10 members of its global workforce are men. The Cupertino, California-based company’s announcement was based on summer 2014 personnel data.
Apple reported that females accounted for: 28 percent of its leader ranks. 35 percent of its non-tech employees.
20 percent of its tech employees.
By race, 74 percent of female characters were white, 14 percent were black, 6 percent were Asian, 5 percent were Latina and 1 percent were some other ethnicity.
Women actors had 42 percent of all speaking parts, a drop of 1 percent from 2012-13 but higher than 1997- 98’s 39 percent.
As women characters aged, they were less likely to be cast. Of all female characters, 32 percent were in their 30s and 17 percent were in their 40s. The respective Figures for male characters were 33 percent and 25 percent.
Males directed 86 percent of all TV episodes.
White males directed 7 out of 10 episodes.
All women and minority men, combined, directed 3 out of 10 episodes.
Men of color directed 17 percent of all episodes, an increase over the previous year.
White women directed 12 percent of all episodes, the same rate as the previous year.
Women of color directed 2 percent of all episodes, the same rate as the previous year.
Overall, by age, 59 percent of female characters were in their 20s and 30s, while 58 percent of male characters were in their 30s and 40s.
Of all characters, 3 percent of females and 4 percent of males were older than 60.
Females accounted for 46 percent of characters in programs with at least one female writer and 39 percent of characters in shows with no female writers.
Females accounted for 47 percent of the cast in shows with at least one female creator and 39 percent of the cast in shows with no female creators.
In that cumulative category, these researchers concluded that in 2013-14 women were: 40 percent of producers, which was up from 38 percent in 2012-13. 26 percent of writers in 2013-14, down from 30 percent in 2012-13. 21 percent of executive producers, down from 24 percent in 2012-13.
19 percent of creators, down from 23 percent in 2012-13.
16 percent of editors, which was unchanged from 2012-13.
13 percent of directors, up from 11 percent in 2012-13.
1 percent of directors of photography, down from 2 percent in 2012-13.
Women in video game development:
Overall, 48 percent of gamers were female.
Women and men each purchased 50 percent of video games.
Women aged 18 and older were 36 percent of gamers, while boys aged 18 and younger were 17 percent of gamers.
On average, all adult gamers have been playing for 16 years; women have been playing for 13 years, on average, and men for an average of 18 years
Of young women aged 18-24, 26 percent said they had been stalked online and 25 percent said they were sexually harassed online, and that some of those threats were sustained over an extended period.
In addition, women said “they do not escape the heightened rates of physical threats and sustained harassment common to their male peers and young people in general.”
Women were more likely than men to find their most recent experience with online harassment extremely or very upsetting; 38 percent of those women and 17 percent of those men described their suffering in those terms.
Although they hold almost 52 percent of all professional-level jobs, American women lag substantially behind men when it comes to their representation in leadership positions (source):
They are only 14.6 percent of executive officers, 8.1 percent of top earners, and 4.6 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs.
They hold just 16.9 percent of Fortune 500 board seats.
In the financial services industry, they make up 54.2 percent of the labor force, but are only 12.4 percent of executive officers, and 18.3 percent of board directors. None are CEOs.
They account for 78.4 percent of the labor force in health care and social assistance but only 14.6 percent of executive officers and 12.4 percent of board directors. None, again, are CEOs.
In the legal field, they are 45.4 percent of associates—but only 25 percent of nonequity partners and 15 percent of equity partners.
In medicine, they comprise 34.3 percent of all physicians and surgeons but only 15.9 percent of medical school deans.
In information technology, they hold only 9 percent of management positions and account for only 14 percent of senior management positions at Silicon Valley startups.
White men–by overwhelming numbers–hold the majority of power, wealth, and authority in the US.
Now that we have covered how women are oppressed by men in America, let’s look at the demographics of US women vs. other regions worldwide in violence statistics.
The report represents data regionally according to WHO regions.
For intimate partner violence, the type of violence against women for which more data were available, the worst affected regions were:
South-East Asia - 37.7% prevalence. Based on aggregated data from Bangladesh, Timor-Leste (East Timor), India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand.
Eastern Mediterranean - 37% prevalence. Based on aggregated data from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine.
Africa – 36.6% prevalence. Based on aggregated data from Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
For combined intimate partner and non-partner sexual violence or both among all women of 15 years or older, prevalence rates were as follows:
Eastern Mediterranean – 36.4%* (No data were available for non-partner sexual violence in this region)
High income countries – 32.7%
Violence against women in high-income countries:
In Canada a study of adolescents aged 15 to 19 found that 54 per cent of girls had experienced “sexual coercion” in a dating relationship. v
In the United States, 83 percent of girls aged 12 to 16 experience some for of sexual harassment in public schools. xviii
The United States is the third country with the highest rape statistics.
Another source on how the US has awful sexual assault rates.
The United States is rated one of the highest countries in the world for violence.
The US is a terrible place for women.
22 countries where the gender wage gap is smaller than the US
U.S. women are more likely to die during childbirth than women in any other developed country, leading the U.S. to be ranked 33rd among 179 countries on the health and well-being of women and children.
US women paid less in every industry.
The U.S. ranks high on education and economic opportunities for women. But it ranks 60th on political empowerment, compared to Canada’s (ranked 20th overall) 42nd position.
And this is only the tip of the iceberg. So, yes, we still have a lot of need for feminism in first world countries.
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