ct to live longer, make more of their own money, and escape the oppressive male-dominated regimes of other countries. As a result of women successes and the pride they realize in their achievements, movements that promote feminism and equality develop. With attention toward the welfare of women of oppressive nations, their education, their general living conditions, and largely, their suffrage rights, feminist groups attempt to “level the playing field” and promote the advancement of rights to all the world’s women. Levine and Neft presented a successful and powerful argument thanks to their statistical evidence. It is true that many countries (i.e. the United States, Australia, and England) allow women to succeed and enjoy the same rights and privileges as men, but these women account for only a small fraction of the 2.8 billion women living on earth. As this linear, factual argument showed, still 70% of all impoverished people are women. Further categories of statistics (one for each point I outlined) supply evidence accounting for women’s overwhelming role in the impoverished population. The authors furthered their point by noting an example of modern-day oppression of women. The Taliban movement of Afghanistan employs strict Islam law that forces women to be uneducated, unskilled, and unopened to free, social interaction with others… especially men. This supplies final substantiation of the authors’ argument, that women continue to be oppressed by their male-dominated societies. It is a bold undertaking for women to ally and promote a world movement to abandon sexist traditions. Although I have never lived in a third world or non-Westernized country, I have studied the conditions women suffer as “inferior” to men. In National Geographic and various courses I have taken, these terrible conditions are depicted in full color. Gender inequality is a terrible trait of our global soc...
