Women In America

Altogether, women have been through greater challenges than most of the men in America. There are strong, independent women that cannot express herself because America forbids them to do so. Men find independent women to be undesirable and unattractive. There was an illustration around the 1960s about a woman and a man. The illustration was trying to advertise vitamins by saying, “So the Harder a Wife Works The Cuter She Looks (Kellogg's Peps)! This advertisement is offensive to women because underlying theme is for a man to find a woman “cute”, she has to clean and do what he wants. This is not the case for the Feminists, they want to be independent and be able to make decisions without their husbands. This does not mean that Feminists do

In this time period, only two women had held a cabinet rank and there was not any record of a woman sitting in the Supreme Court. They do not have any power in America; cannot change the law or join the police force. Women are subjected to lower pay even if they do the exact same thing as another male employee. The situation or workplace would not matter; women would always be paid less than a man. An article from the Jet magazine was printed in Feb. 12, 1970, the article mentioned a woman named Shirley Chisholm, she went to an employment conference and spoke her claim. She said, “Racism and anti-feminism are two of the prime positions of this country… Whether it is intentional or not, women are paid less than men for the same work” (Jet pg. 10). This is true throughout the whole country, owners of certain stores or business would pay women less than men. The media would agree with this by posting articles, stories, advertisement about how women should stay indoors. That a woman has a job; it is to take care of her

A feminist wants control of her own body; to be pregnant and give birth to a baby is a painful and emotional. It changes a woman’s life forever, a man does not go through any of this. Men complain about having a baby and doing everything that their says to do, however, the women are the ones who are doing everything. They are taking care of the child, feeding her, making sure she is not drinking any alcohol, doing everything in her power to keep the child safe and healthy. In Women's Movements in the United States: Woman Suffrage, Equal Rights, and Beyond, Steven Buechler wrote, “By the late 1960s and early 1970s, women’s right to abortion had become a major demand of the contemporary women’s movement..in belief that women have a fundamental right to control their bodies” (Buechler pg. 111-112). The media did not like that the women were feeling this way because a lot of men love to have control over their women. Advertisement, magazines were made in which men were taking control of their wives. A feminist did not like this at all; they wanted to control their bodies, to decide whether or not to bring a human being into the