Striving for Complete Equality: Women's Ongoing Struggle

Although women’s civil rights have come a long way from being unable to vote or hold a job, there is still room for growth and progress. Women are unequal in the workplace with their pay, in pop culture in which they are held to unrealistic beauty standards, and in a society where one in five women will be raped and only 54% will be reported. Society has proven we are able to evolve in our mind sets over time, and it may take another 50 years but we will see the changes being made to a new and fully equal world. Growing up in a small, and vehemently republican, town that never seems to change can definitely make you very opinionated. It’s one of those places perfectly portrayed in classic movies, the same families never leave and seem to run everything, everyone goes to the football games even though we haven’t won more that two games in a season in years, and everyone keeps many of the same backwards beliefs that the rest of the world has already realized are erroneous. Fortunately for the next

As seconds pass people are constantly searching, learning, and discovering. Ones beliefs and values may now be shaped from an internet friend million miles away, and their opinion may vary from ones mother who is ten feet away in the next room, who has helped shape that person to what they are today. Our minds are more open, now able to learn things outside of a small community that may have a common opinion. Everyone should be equal regardless of race, gender, or sexuality. Throughout most of history in U.S. society women have been unequal to men, but beginning in 1848 the gap began to shrink when the first women’s rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. During this convention an agenda was formed for equal women’s rights. After this they began to fight for equal voting rights which didn’t become country wide until