Power And Powerlessness In A Jury Of Her Peers

Power and Powerlessness: Women Since as far as history can go back everyone can all say as far as gender roles goes, it has not been equal. Men have had always had the upper-hand in fairly every aspect of any situation. Which leaves women a unfair disadvantage and powerless in anything a woman would want to do or achieve. Since the beginning of time society has made it out that the man is the one that has to provide for the women and children, and women are only in charge of taking care of the house and children. Plenty of women have fought to have quality with men since the 1600s and still to this day, we are not one hundred percent equal. With that being said, because some brave women have fought for men and women to have equal power which

A great example that shows the concept of power and powerlessness is the story “A Jury of Her Peers” which has considerable amount of examples that can relate back to the concept of the divide of men and women as far as power goes. The first movement that started it all was the Women’s Suffrage movement which was the fight to get women the right to vote lasted around 72 years till it added as the 19th amendment. Not surely after that there was another movement to get another amendment added was the “Equal Right Amendment” which was designed to guarantee equal rights for women. Then many years later which many refer it to “the second wave” which brought back the opportunity to raise awareness to equal rights for women since the first movement was not successful. Feminism has always and will always be a thing till there is equal opportunity for both men and women. In society, as far as power goes, men are the ones with power and women are the ones with powerlessness, but powerlessness is what inspires great things

The small amount of people that knew it was not over knew that the quest for women's rights would still be an ongoing battle (Murphy 27). They knew that men still most of the power and even though women were not entirely powerlessness anymore, since men had way more power, they still needed to make more changes so both genders had equal the power. On 1923, the leader of the National Woman’s Party took a step to draft an equal rights amendment for the constitution. The amendment would ensure that women and men were equal in any situation (Murphy 29). The movement got 35 out of the 38 states to ratify it to become an amendment, but no other state did so the movement died (Murphy 31). Still even today some feminist groups are fighting for it to be brought back to life