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Women's Rights

The gender differences between men and women in society has been drastically

reduced since the early thirties when, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' was first

published. Through equal rights movements and generational education sexism and

biases have been almost completely abolished. To deny some one of their human

rights simply because of their gender is ignorance. Women and men should be

treated equally depending on the type of person they are not on there gender.

Zora Hurston dealt with the sexism as well as the racism of the early twentieth

century not only as a woman but also as an African American. She grew up in a

time when racism was still very prominent in society. In the early thirties

until the late sixties a women's role in society was to provide for her family

and husband. After the sixties the women's rights movements were in full

effect, women were actually pursuing their rights declared to them by the

Declaration of Independence, they would not stand to be submissive anymore.

They pursued their rights thoroughly and today women and men are seen together

as equals, in the voting booths as well as the employment field's. The

evolution of equality for women has been a long process starting in the early

thirties, continuing throughout the sixties and today has been obtained in

American society.

In the early thirties women's roles were quite different then today. In the

novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" the main female character, Janie, played

the role of a submissive unhappy housewife. Her role in the novel was to be

subservient to her husband in an unhappy marriage that lasted some twenty-three

years. She moved to an all African American town and her husband being w...

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...eties in the U.S women

only held 8% of top managerial positions. Outside of the U.S women only make up

1% of executives in the top 1000 companies in the world. Even with these

present statistics women are still doing better than ever before. What does

this say about our society then? If women are less then 10% of the

international business force, and barely 10% in the U.S what kind of

opportunities do we offer women for business advancement?

Women should not be oppressed due to their sex. They can complete any mental or

physical task as well as any other human being. People need to stop being so

ignorant, and look pass their own personal bias's, and racisms. Women are

people and should be treated with the same amount of respect and consideration

as any other person. Women's role in society should be as predominant and

forthcoming as anyone else.

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