A few weeks ago, 3 women, from the United Nation came to the United States and visited a few states, to see how we treat the women here and were horrified to see how bad we are treating them. Health, equal pay, etc.
Delegates were appalled by the lack of gender equality in America.
When they visited an abortion clinic in Alabama and experienced the hostile political climate around women's reproductive rights. "We were harassed. There were two vigilante men waiting to insult us," "It's a kind of terrorism," added Eleonora Zielinska, the delegate from Poland. "To us, it was shocking."
In most European countries, she explained, abortions are performed at general doctors' offices and hospitals that offer all kinds of other health services, so there aren't protesters waiting to heckle the women who enter.
United States have "missing rights" compared to the rest of the world. For instance, the U.S. is one of three countries in the world that does not guarantee women paid maternity leave.
The U.N. suggests that countries guarantee at least 14 weeks of paid parental leave. Some countries go further -- Iceland requires five months paid leave for each parent, and an additional two months to be shared between them. "The lack of accommodation in the workplace to women's pregnancy, birth and post-natal needs is shocking,"
"Some states have introduced gun control laws regarding domestic violence, refusing to give perpetrators of domestic violence the right to possess firearms," Raday said. "This should be a national policy, not an isolated state policy."
The women's other recommendations for the U.S. include passing campaign finance reform that would allow more women to be elected into office, because the networks that raise money for political candidates are mostly dominated by men.
They also suggested raising the minimum wage, which disproportionately affects women. They also recommend a federal law to stop the slew of new abortion restrictions in the states that are shutting down women's health clinics across the South.
"Religious freedom does not justify discrimination against women, nor does it justify depriving women of their rights to the highest standard of health care,"
"So many people really believe that U.S. women are way better off with respect to rights than any woman in the world," Raday said. "They would say, 'Prove it!
They plan to present the full report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in June 2016.
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