I am writing on whether beauty pageants exploit females. I need a great attention grabber. Any ideas?

The word exploit has two slightly different meanings. In general it means making use of something or putting something to some useful purpose. For example, we speak of exploiting a gold mine to produce gold. The other meaning has a negatively charged emotional connotations. As per this meaning, exploitation means to make unfair use of something for selfish purpose.

If we allege that beauty pageants make unfair use of females, then we should should be able to specify in what way the females are being used unfairly. There are many ladies who work on job that require much harder work with much less pay than a ladies who may be be a part of a beauty pageants. For example, a lady who may be employed by a small factory for assembly work. If we don't consider that millions of such ladies are exploited, then it is rather puzzling for in what way ladies working on beauty pageants are exploited.