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American Women Equality

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Since females have felt mistreated and discriminated against men for decades.. Throughout these times, women have been struggling to be equal to men, both at home and in the workplace. Women have come a long way and are certainly fighting to gain that equality, but, yet gender roles are still playing an important role in our society. People view men as being always the “working man” and “strong” and women asto being the “stay at home” parent and being “weak.””. In today's society, American women are still fighting for equality because they believe that they get treated unfairly and want the same things as men.

In present society, public some of the views men as greater than women and having an easier life and not being treated …show more content…

Some big ones are gender pay gap, affordable childcare, and maternity leave. For example, in the article “The U.N. Sent 3 Foreign Women To The U.S. to Assess Gender Equality They Were Horrified,” by Laura Bassett, says, “they found the U.S. to be lagging far behind international human rights standards in a number of areas, including 23% gender pay gaps, maternity leave,and affordable childcare.” This explains how the three U.N. delegates thought the U.S. was lacking in gender equality. Also, later in the same article its states, “the U.S. is one of three countries in the world that does not guarantee women paid maternity leave according to the U.N. International Labour Organization.” This is explaining how women are being treated differently thaen men in the U.S. compared to other countries. Then, in the storyarticle “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Gilman, she believes that in people's lives men have a controlling threat over women in relationships and create them to do things they don't enjoy. For example, Gilman writes, “iI always fancy Ii see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but jJohn has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story making a nervous weakness like …show more content…

In the article “Eight Women Breaking Barriers In Men's Sports As Coaches, Referees and Broadcasters,” by Kate Feldman brought to the public's attention that women are beginning to have the same jobs that you usually would see a man working as. Feldman explains by mentioning examples of females new job positions:, “Becky Hammon was hired as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs in August 2015, becoming the first full-time,salaried female coach in NBA history.””. Then later mentioning “ Jen Welter changed history as the NFL’s first female coach when the Arizona Cardinals hired her as an assistant coach with the inside linebackers”. Many people were shocked seeing this because everyone thinks that you have to be strong or manly to play a role in men sports, but that is not true. Society has changed a lot through the years making progress in job opportunities for women that there are for men.

However, if we can all have a more positive outlook on gender equality, we can accomplish more for both genders. It is acknowledged that there are still some gaps between fairness of men and women, but we can bring an end to gender inequality by focusing on the progress, throughout life women have gained more rights and been treated more fairly.The problem is that the public does not focus on the positive growth

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