Howard Zinn Summary

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In this Chapter Howard Zinn is showing the reader how women was subjected to harsh and authoritarian treatment during and after the revolution. It was prevalent in past history and is still prevalent today many woman are still faced with unfair treatment today, however it is not as bad now as it was in the past. Today woman are faced with issues such as gender wage gap where men and women doing the same job, but women do not receive the same pay as men. Things were totally different for women in the New United States Zinn reveals that the women were paid poorly and treated rudely and harshly often times they were deprived of quality food and privacy. Howard Zinn is explaining the issues that women were faced with in past history. Zinn states that “It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country the explorers were men, the landholders and merchant’s men, the political leader’s men, the military figures men, and the very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women Zinn said is a sign of their submerged status” (Zinn, p. 103).
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