Why is it rape when a Male teacher has sex with a student but when a female teacher dose it is just described as sex? And why do women get lesser sentences? This is a genuine qestion that I dont understand ? Wouldn't anything under age of 18 or whatever the state law is be considered rape? What happened to gender equality? If I'm a teacher and have sex with a student and get locked up and my co worker helped or did the same and we got caught together would we get the same punishment? I'm 19 in college and need advice for a paper about the current state of equality not specific to gender just all equality to race sex identification etc.