April 9th marked the 59th anniversary of the equal pay act. Still women earn .77 to every mans $1.00
There is still ongoing debate on whether or not this difference is mainly due to gender discrimination. There are so many factors at play here that could contribute to the difference it's hard to pinpoint what exactly. Politicians don't make it easier when they insist they understand statistics perfectly well.
As for what used to go on in history, that's history past and irrelevant now (except for memorial purposes and such). It's like black people still fighting for the abolishing of slavery in the US when it has already long gone.
That means everything. You were born a male, and statistically speaking you will make a couple hundred thousand more dollars in your life than a woman who works as much and has the same education.
Depends on so many factors behind the scenes, though. It's not necessarily a gender thing.
Statistics don't always show the cause; they may often only show correlation (and not necessarily causation) unless certain variables have been controlled for such as types of jobs, duration at job, and so on.
Imagine you having to deal with getting raped as a male. Nice thought right? Not so much for women. Yet it is a reality.
http://www.rainn.org/statistics
Men are raped as well, but even so, rape has nothing to do with whether women of today have rights or not that men have.
Even if women have all the rights in the world, some of them will still end up being raped because that's the unfortunate way of life in this world. For both men and women, some will be murdered, some will be tortured to death, and some will be sexually violated. No amounts of rights is going to eliminate these issues because a lot of people aren't going to respect your rights anyway.
These are to name just acouple of the inequities that women face.
And men as well. Being selective isn't how I expected you to address my question.
I was nice enough and gave you some links. But I do believe the burden of proof is on the make who thinks things are just honky dory. And everything is equal.
In statistics, the null (default) hypothesis is that things are equal (not different).