Violence and Gender: Why Women Are Safer Seen and Not Heard

This issue is important because many women believe that the rights of a person should not be infringed no matter what their gender is, and by not giving them equality, their rights are being limited. During the periods 1840 to 1968, total equality for women did not become a reality due to inadequate political representation, economic discrepancy, and commercial objectification. Throughout history, women have always fought to gain equal political rights, but conventional roles kept women from getting enough political representation. Many suffrage groups founded by women challenged the conventional roles of women during 1840 to 1968 with the dream of obtaining equal political representation. In 1919, the nineteenth amendment, drafted by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton was passed.

Even though we are seeing more and more women succeeding in life than men, American culture still defines a women as unequal. Society has set men and women apart by labeling them. It is common for men to be seen as strong and women to be seen as weak. The culture thinks that women cannot do jobs like men do; such as firefighters or policemen etc and if they do these jobs, the culture looks at these women in a negative side because these jobs are masculine and women are not supposed to do these jobs. Furthermore, culture defines a woman as a sensitive person; however in order to obtain these jobs, you have to be aggressive and tough and a woman is not like that.

Today, many feminists go around stating there isn’t a need for men, women can survive on their own, and that women are better than men. As Saira Khan states in her article on Spiked, “modern-day feminists engage in man-bashing rather than dignified demands for equality.” (Khan 1). It just shows how feminists would rather take their anger out on men rather than realize we a... ... middle of paper ... ...oncludes is his article, “That’s how we’ve come to this backwards point where the new feminist activism, for some, is about oppressing those with different views. So much for equality!” (Furey 1). They would rather demand dominance than equality, call for justice for issues that are not really there, claim gender discrimination in the work place, and argue against any who try to oppose them.

Conversely, as time has progressed, women have fought this unfair treatment with demands of suffrage and similar rights to those of their male equivalents. Greatly enough, this generation has done an exceptional job in the challenge of overcoming sexism and inequality. However, will this search for equality ever end? When can we say we have created an equal race of men and women? The fact of the matter is that it is truly impossible to have equality between the sexes because of predisposed circumstances that are not easily controllable in the slightest bit.

In today’s society a lot has changed about the view of the role that women play throughout their community. Women now hold positions that they would have never dreamed of withholding centuries ago. Even though women have wedged their way into an array of masculine positions there is still a biased opinion that lingers about them. In this paper I will discuss the hardships that women of this country have endured according to the text when it came to equality, voting, and admittance to the law profession. A society without women would run amok not due to the fact that they are greater than their counterparts but that there are some traits that women have that men just cannot fulfill and vice versa.

The experience of women lawyers. Despite improvements to women’s role in the labour market, women are still facing obstacles that are gender related. Women continue to bear the main responsibility for domestic duties and child care and further more, policies have not enabled women to fully succeed. While women were able to gain access to this highly male dominated profession, and in some cases they outnumber their male counterparts, researchers agree that women are still facing discriminatory barriers. While discrimination is more subtle nowadays compared to the blatant and stupid style of the recent past (Adcock, 2006) women are still experiencing discrimination which is preventing them from receiving equal pay, thus hindering their progress and altering their career paths.

Feminism Throughout history, women around the globe have been struggling to gain rights that are equal to men in the society. Women have been struggling to obtain respect, equality, and the same rights men have in the society. However, this has been difficult to them because of patriarchy, an ideology whereby, men are always considered to be superior to women, and have the right to control women. This thought has spread widely among the social structures of the society around the globe and this made it difficult for women to achieve their dreams of feminism. Nonetheless, through the feminist movements, women were able to get some equal rights to men, and are still struggling to get the rights most men take for granted.

Gender inequality, a social problem that is common all over the world, still exists and has a negative impact on our American society. Gender inequality remains a major barrier to human development because it allows unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender. Despite how we live in an advanced society now, our perception of gender treatment is halted in the past. Although many feel that men should receive better treatment in education, work, and at home because they are perceived as the ‘breadwinners’, not the women, nonetheless, some feel that women are equal and should receive equivalent treatment regarding education, work, and marriages. Women have always been a step behind men because society has not accepted

However, men are not very open to the idea and they often resent women who are beginning to work the same roles as men. Laws have been established to protect women from any form of inequality, to ensure they are treated equally. Women now have the same opportunities as men, they can vote, join the military, and hold positions in political offices. Society has changed tremendously over the years allowing women to obtain the same equal opportunities and privileges as men. Many years ago, women were not privileged to the same opportunities as men.

Since the beginning of history, women have been known as the “weak gender”. This misconception had shaped the model for a system dominated by men; and nowadays, that notion is not longer true but the old customs and ideas influenced our government, and had produced a system wherein women are not equal to men, creating, thus, gender inequality in the workplace. It is not ethical t... ... middle of paper ... ...T EQUALITY." Texas Journal of Women & the Law 12.2 (2003): 323-343. Academic Search Complete.