This method of thinking objectively is indispensable to our attempts to become better able to interact and understand one another’s actions.Ann Levine and Naomi Neft’s article “Women in Today’s World” asserts that although the status of females in developed countries has vastly improved with society’s movement toward a more gender-equal condition, the majority of women remain in a dire state of oppression. Women are more impoverished, illiterate, unemployed, and more destitute than men. In spite of some women’s improvements under developed countries’ more progressive, gender-equal regimes, education, literacy rates, employment, civil rights, health, and public representation remain substandard for most of the world’s females. Levine and Neft begin their argument discussing the majority of women in today’s world. These women live in areas untouched by changing laws and movements toward gender equality. These are women who remain repressed by their own religions and social laws, customs, and societal traditions and are unable to gain access to better education, jobs, and healthcare. Still prevalent in today’s world are “tracking” techniques that aim young women in foreign schools toward traditional feminine jobs and ancient religious regimes (like those of Islam) that suppress women’s decisions how to dress, socialize, and earn money. Statistics regarding education, literacy rates, employment, civil rights, health, and public representation demonstrate that although the situations of more affluent and westernized females might be improving, global standards still indicate women to be the secondary gender.Levine and Neft indicate that women tend to be the majority gender in countries where there is a higher incidence of gender-equal movement and better living conditions. Westernized countries across the globe are havens for women because they can expe...
