The Wage Gap!
The pay gap between men and women exists. On average, for every dollar a man earns in America, a woman will earn this dollar amount.
What is "77 cents"?
This type of feminism developed out of the idea that women should have more options to choose from, but that it is perfectly reasonable for their choices to revolve around a feminine or woman oriented approach.
What is "Maternal Feminism"?
A person who is a human female and has an XX chromosome.
What is a Woman?
The reference to top surgery is often another way of describing this.
What is the removal of breasts?
When a man is attracted to other men.
What is gay?
Men and women go into different fields of work, on average. Men tend to go into work, more often than women, that focus' on things. Women tend to go into work that has a focus on this.
What is "People or Helping Others"?
This type of feminism suggests that there is very little difference between men and women, and that if society improved men and women would make similar or even the exact same choices.
What is Egalitarian Feminism?
A person who sees themself as the gender they were born as.
What is cisgender?
If a child were to take hormone blockers before they hit puberty, they would not develop sexually in the same way as their peers. This is one of the risks of taking hormone blockers before a person goes through puberty.
What is becoming infertile?
When a woman is attracted to other women.
What is a lesbian?
Men, on average, work this percent more overtime than women.
What is 10%?
Women have been forming groups throughout US history to support different ideas or people. N.O.W. is one of those groups and the acronym stands for this.
What is the "National Organization for Women"?
A person who doesn't see themself as the gender they were born as.
What is Trans?
This group of many psychiatric professionals reviews disorders and other mental illnesses and produces a manual that outlines and details those topics.
What is the DSM or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
Someone who is attracted to both men and women.
What is bisexual?
Women in this category earn near enough to what men make, that when you control for it, the wage gap disappears.
What is, "Never been married and have no children"?
Some people hear ERA and believe the conversation is about baseball, but for Feminists, the ERA of the 1960s and 1970s is a reference to this.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
A general term that describes someone who is not cisgender or heterosexual.
What is queer?
The current diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria is a change from this previous diagnosis.
What is Gender Identity Disorder?
What is a man?
This institution effects men and women differently. For men, traditionally, it allows them to work for longer hours and gives them an advantage when looking for higher positions. It has the opposite impact on women.
What is "Marriage"?
Joani Seagar, the author of Penguin Atlas of Women in the World, claims that 22-35% of all emergency room visits for women is due to domestic violence. According to the CDC, this is the percentage of women whose emergency room visit is due to domestic violence.
What is 1% or less than 1%?
A person who is not attracted, physically, to anyone.
What is asexual?
This percentage of young people who suffer from Gender Dysphoria, if untreated, grow up and later identify as being gay.
What is 80%?
When a person is born with an extra X or Y chromosome.
What is intersex?