Gender Inequality In The United States

All throughout history, men have been seen to hold more power than women, but many people have set a goal to abolish gender inequality. Feminism is defined as “a social movement focused on the political, economic, and social rights of women” (“Feminism”). Many people think of feminism as a movement planning to make women higher than men, but this is not true. It simply is focused on showing the public how biased people may be depending on gender. There has been a need for these feminist organizations since America first became established, but there are many places that they may occur worldwide. In the past, most people noticed the inequality towards women. People believed women were the weaker sex due to Eve’s sin in the Garden of Eden, and it was believed that rights were given to men alone by God. A woman’s only true jobs were to take care of her husband, children, and the home that they shared (“Women’s Rights”). Women were not seen to get a very high education, and they were essentially forced to marry. If a woman was not married, she would have to live in her parents’ home, work as a servant for others, or go into the sex trade (Baym

Many men and women today are trying to make gender equality a mainstream cause. Things such as Discwoman, #WomenWhoWork, and Hollywood’s Fight For Equal Pay bring public public attention of the media to positive outcomes of feminism. Discwoman, a two-day electronic music festival in New York, helps support women with a genre of music that is mostly done by males. The #WomenWhoWork movement, started by Ivanka Trump, highlights achievements by modern-day women role models. Likewise, in 2015, Jennifer Lawrence wrote a letter to a feminist blog. She explained that she was not getting paid as much as her male co-star Bradley Cooper, and that she wanted to engender awareness in unequal pay in all of America, not only Hollywood