Gender equality is a dream for millions of Americans, yet many do not know the depths of this movement that makes reality clearer. Articles like “The End of Men” will obscure the public’s opinion because of how it presents women receiving college degrees and PhDs in numbers significantly higher than men. Yet due to the various articles I have read in class I do not believe that the United States will be able to achieve gender equality in twenty to thirty years. Women’s representation in higher positions is so low that it is very difficult to pass laws and change social ideas. There are also too many obvious prejudices that have not yet been fixed even due to decades of protesting, like the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement took a full swing in the 1960s with very powerful people as their leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Racism has been fought against for hundreds of years and yet it still …show more content…
I recently watched a movie called “Mona Lisa’s Smile” that focused on what women do after they get their degrees. The movie was based in the 1950’s and showed that back then, women would get degrees and then had to stay at home while their husband worked. It gave you a glimpse into how women’s potential was destroyed through sexism. The movie showed me that the generations who have experienced or heard of these ideas from their parents will hold many unconscious biases. These people who practice sexism have passed on their ideas to the next generation and even if the next people don’t follow these ideas, it still creates an unconscious bias. The present day generation is fighting against this with the help of social media. Except, it is harder to spread those ideas until we have children of our own. That will take more than 20-30 years because there are still thousands of Americans that do not believe in gender equality, which has created a huge