Women's Rights In The Last 50 Years Essay

During the past fifty years women have been participants in and beneficiaries of the civil rights movement. Women have been active protestors and fight for what they think is right and that no matter the culture or sex everyone as a citizen of the United States should have equal rights. Women during the past fifty years did not want to be seen as high or greater than men, but just equal, even though through all the conflict women have been subjected to cruel punishments and seen lesser than man. A man could use religion to the fact that in the book of Genesis, God said it himself that they will always be lower than man because they were the cause of sin into this earth; but how could someone use such nonsense in a country that is free of religious influences. That is why there has to be the change in the way that women should be viewed with equal rights, “comparable worth,” and the role of women in the military.

We often as men judge women different than men because of the way that they appear and it goes all the way to the beginning of time. Women are often seen as frail human beings with no capacity to do things on their own; such thought is seen as ignorant because a man and a woman can both do the same amount of things. Therefore women have tried to pass the “equal rights amendment” where it states that no matter the sex there is equal rights for everyone, this amendment was put it in the past 50 years but never passed. This issue should be dealt with and handled where women should be seen as the same and not slightly different. Women have also been a great role within our society and influence it sometimes even more than men, they are fully capable of doing anything they put their mind too, because they 're a human being just like