Progression Of Women

Our world is always changing. Each generation’s experience in life is different from the last. A grandmother’s life was different from her daughters, and even more so than her granddaughters. This is not a bad thing, without change, we cannot progress as a society, and without progression we become dissolved into oblivion. That being said, this means society can never stop changing. Looking back at the past, especially in more recent years, society has made huge progressions towards gender equality; we can see this progression because people rely less on gender roles, women are given more opportunities in the workplace, and each age group is clearly more progressive than the last. We often romanticize the past and believe it was better ‘back

There is clear progress in job opportunities for women in recent years, “women have climbed to the top of many a corporate ladder, IBM and General Motors being just two examples. They were recently approved to serve in all military combat jobs” as well (Crary). Taking into account, however, “globally women earn 24% less than men” and “in many make-dominated domains, women’s strides have been slow paced and, even then, often greeted with resentment” more job opportunities does not mean harassment and discrimination in the workplace has disappeared (Crary). But, progress is not about reaching a goal, it is about getting closer to it. We have made large amounts of progress over many years, even if it is simply that “the percentage of women in parliament has doubled in the last 20 years,” and we have passed protection laws such as the “Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women [which] provided a framework for action on the pandemic” (Infographic). Society's progress may not have achieved equality yet, but with data it is clear that we are on the right path to one day obtain true gender

This may seem like an obvious observation, but to say the least, in this modern culture, sometimes, it is not so obvious.Society’s “support for progressive gender roles has increased steadily since 1977,” so now it is just a question on when society is going to obtain complete equality (Vagianos). The generation of the civil rights movement seemed progressive in the 1960’s similar to today how, “the main force pulling the overall average up beyond its earlier high point is the entry of the Millennial generation, which displays the most gender egalitarian attitudes of all,” which also supports the fact that, “each age group generally supports gender equality more than the generation before them” (Vagianos). But, that is only the case in America and other first world countries. Today, in many developing or third world countries women still do not have the same basic opportunities and rights as men do. Here is where progress gets somewhat dubious, for example, the global “literacy rate has risen to 85% from 76% in 1990,” however, “women account for over 60% of the world’s illiterate” (Infographic). Also,“women still spend 16 million hours per day collecting water in 25 sub-Saharan countries,” compared to just 6 million hours for men and 4 million hours for children (Infographic). Consequently, “gender disparity widens at the secondary and tertiary school levels in many countries,” even though, “all