As a preface, this is a very selfishly motivated article as you will see; however, hopefully everyone will be able to get behind these ideas since they would represent a more equal society. So far everyone has seen feminism and equality as only benefiting women and taking benefits from men, but this could not be farther from the truth. Everyone has something to gain from equality.
Before I continue I should define equality as I will be discussing it: the population of America is 51 percent women and 49 percent men, so equality of the sexes would be every statistic being 51 percent women and 49 percent men. Hopefully there won't be too many issues with this definition of equality, or at least a way to measure and quantify equality.
With this in mind it would make sense that feminists and egalitarians would see any deviance from these statistics as terrible and worth fighting against; however the greatest discrepancies from the ideal are consistently being ignored by feminists, albeit for obvious reasons.
Feminists are fighting in areas and professions that are highly male dominated such as the STEM fields, upper management, and sales positions; however these are not the most male dominated areas of work by a long shot. The most male dominated fields are actually mining, factory work, sanitation, and industrial work--the unpleasant stuff.
It is no surprise to anyone that women do not want to work in mines, factories, or sewage. No one does. But if the true goal of feminism is equality then these should be the front lines as each of these fields are grossly overpopulated by men and women are grossly underrepresented, even more than in areas such as STEM or CEOs.
These are hard, gross, physically demanding jobs with little reward or recognition, and women are content to allow men to dominate these roles in a horrific echo of values that date back to the late 1800s when a mine or a factory would be the center of a city and every man would work there as every woman stayed home and raised the children.
You'd imagine that feminists would be outraged by these values that are so clearly backwards and reminiscent of the days of oppression of women, but this couldn't be farther from the truth. Women are instead concerned with getting the 'good' jobs. Women want to work in offices. Feminists are fighting for the jobs in laboratories. Those who claim to be on the side of equality are only interested in getting women the cushy, intellectual, and highly rewarded jobs.
Feminists are content to have the jobs as CEOs, engineers, and be in sales while the men do all the dirty work for them. Women will sit in offices as men stand in sewage. Women will be meeting with foreign diplomats and representatives while men dig for coal miles under the ground.
I said at the beginning that this was a selfish article and it is. More than 90% of the victims of industrial accidents are men. More than 90% of the victims of mining accidents are men. More than 90% of industrial related deaths are men. If we lived in world of equality between the sexes these statistics would be only 49% men, but femanists don't want that. And why would they?
