Advancements in Women's Rights Over the Past 100 Years

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Most cultures and societies through both history, and today have viewed women as "the weaker sex”. Often they labeled unfit to perform many jobs outside of child bearing and domestic chores, even considered less intelligent than men are. In the past, this attitude translated into fewer jobs for women, below average pay, and poor working conditions.

This continues today, despite the many great advances women have made in the past 100 years. This is evident in the Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) fields, where a man is far more likely to get the position than a woman is. The rate of males EMTs compared to female EMTs was a ration of 8-1 in 2010. During my research, I came across a website which states,

"Female Medics are Deadly! The people who climb out of an ambulance to hold you together on the way to the hospital are called Emergency Medical Technicians. They are the first line of offense against Death. Moreover, that is your first clue that women should not be them. “Technician” may rhyme with “beautician,” but the two are very different jobs. One requires a brain, while the other is a bastardization of the term and requires nothing more than a high school degree ...” (menarebetterthanwomen.com).

Granted, anyone could have written this post; however, the entire website is devoted to openly demeaning females in the American work force. It is an example of how the mentality of inequality in the workplace still exists in many areas. This may be in part, due to the pregnancy discrimination, which is when an employer wrongly decides to fire, or reduce the wages, of an employee because of pregnancy. Some employers are hesitant to hire women within childbearing years because they fear a lack of productivity, absen...

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Works Cited

"Making Media Work for Women." WomenAction 2000 Front Door. Web. 18 Mar. 2012. .

"Media Coverage of Women and Women's Issues." Media Awareness Network. Web. 17 Mar. 2012. .

"Minorities, Women Underrepresented on Cable News." MarketingCharts: Charts & Data for Marketers in Online, Excel and PowerPoint Formats. Web. 18 Mar. 2012. .

Sedghi, Ami, and Kira Cochrane. "Women's Representation in Media: Who's Running the Show?" The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 04 June 0056. Web. 17 Mar. 2012. .

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