Our Fight is Never Over

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Our Fight is Never Over
Currently, the year is 2014 and still to this day women have not fully encountered the feeling of experiencing their own freedom. For years women have had countless amounts of fights, petitions, campaigns, activist groups but it still seems as if all they have done was completely worthless and will seem to never work out. Why must women work twice as hard as men just to gain a little respect? Just as men, women are human, we live, eat, and breathe just as they do. So how come it takes decades upon decades for women to finally get the chance to say that they live the American Dream? The answer, they never did, and possibly never will. Women have not only been through the mistreatment and lack of respect of not only being a women but also the way they are viewed as individuals; Voiceless, Weak, will never have a right to speak or do what they want. All women want to have is their freedom to speak the way they desire, to have an opinion on something worth opinionating, but most of all be heard by those who couldn’t take into consideration that women are worth listening to without being given the cold shoulder. In the early days, men’s opinion on women were that “Girls and women should be seen, not to be heard”. Statements as these make men wonder why it is that women have the strong mindset that they do or why they have pushed to their last possible limit to have what they have been craving for, because women do not quit just because a man tells them to and since a man has “more authority” they insist women need to stop and listen to what their opinion on a situation. It took activist and reformers nearly 100 years to win the right for women to have suffrage, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. At the start the fight for women’s freedom was not even a consideration to the men during that time. During the 1820’ and 30’s, most states had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of how much money or property they owned. How was this at all fair to those women who at that time till now work just as hard as they do but still never get the equal amount of credit? Well not only did these women take a stand for what they believed in, but made a group that would hopefully get them heard. “Cult of True Womanhood”: that is, the idea that the only “true” woman was a pious, submissive wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family. These women groups had such strong will that nothing and no one could stand in their way from achieving their initial goals. Instead of arguing that women deserved the same rights and responsibilities as men because women and men were “created equal,” the new generation of activists argued that women deserved the vote because they were different from men. Activist groups as these were absolutely correct, we are our OWN individuals and with being our own individuals means that we will have our OWN option on things because indeed we are different; with being different means hearing the argument from both sides of the political party. Most of the delegates agreed: American women were autonomous individuals who deserved their own political identities. “We hold these truths to be self-evident”. With time, the political party had come up with a new amendment that was thought to be satisfying to those women seeking their rights. 15th Amendment and even allied with racist Southerners who argued that white women’s votes could be used to neutralize those cast by African-Americans. In 1869, this faction formed a group called the National Woman Suffrage Association and began to fight for a universal-suffrage amendment to the federal Constitution. With a movement like this made women realize that the political party was now not only being racist but also taking their movement as plain old tomfoolery in which the women of the suffrage groups did not take lightly. With this amendment in play they wanted to take action once more but this time be noticed by the public. Women had the temperance advocates, for instance, wanted women to have the vote because they thought it would mobilize an enormous voting bloc on behalf of their cause, and many middle-class white people were swayed once again by the argument that the enfranchisement of white women would “ensure immediate and durable white supremacy, honestly attained.” These suffrage groups felt as if they were going in the right direction of making the people see what they go through but wasn't entirely enough quite yet. With women suffrage being a lively subject during World War I, word had begun to spread. World War I slowed the suffragists’ campaign but helped them advance their argument nonetheless: Women’s work on behalf of the war effort, activists pointed out, proved that they were just as patriotic and deserving of citizenship as men, and on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified. One thing that men still don’t realize or give any credit to women is their determination to strive for what they know is right, not only for themselves but others as well. Now that women had the right to speak their mind without getting criticizes, they felt as if they have achieved the most ultimate goal when their journey to freedom had just begun. If you take a glimpse of what society has in store today... it’s as if the world has completely changed roles and whatever men had “fought for” is no longer there. While women made up only about one-third of the workforce in 1969, women today make up almost half of all workers in the United States. Women are also stepping up to lead the country; a record number of women ran for public office in 2012, and a record-high percentage of women are serving in Congress. It is amazing to think that within this amount of time, so much could change due to the courageous acts of those women during the time of suffrage. Women these days now have more possibility of working in the actual work force then staying home all day doing chores and feeding kids. To those men who are sextets towards women believe that is all women are capable of even to this day. Most researchers have found that in recent years, more men have expressed a desire to take on the role of primary caregiver to the children. How could men go from being the bread winner of the house hold to stay at home fathers? More than often the women are those who actually get more job opportunities than men. Men who lost their jobs were employed in fields like construction and finance, whereas the women had been in slightly steadier fields like teaching and healthcare, fields where there will always be a demand for workers. With their husbands unemployed, women would now take on the role of breadwinner, while the men would take care of the home. Although in the past, men were considered to be the highest paid compared to women who are also in the work force. A deeper examination shows that disparities for women also exist among states. Women in Vermont, for example, make on average close to 85 cents for every dollar a man makes, while women in Wyoming make only 64 cents—more than 25 percent less than women in Vermont. On leadership, 15 states have no female elected leaders in the House of Representatives or the Senate. Lastly, while less than 10 percent of women in Vermont, Wisconsin, Hawaii, and Massachusetts are uninsured, nearly 25 percent of women in Texas do not have health insurance. Some states are not as equal as others are when it comes to the women’s rights but one thing for sure is that women contribute much more than we are given credit for. Women make enormous contributions to economies, whether in businesses, on farms, as entrepreneurs or employees, or by doing unpaid care work at home. Women over all have been successful with all they have pursued, which is to not be criticized for what they say nor what they do. Perhaps you could say that they’re finally getting the opportunity to live the American dream ... But are they really. Even though the 19th amendment was made, this didn't stop other ignorant men from being entitled to their opinion towards women. Yes, men are human beings just as women but they have also been the biggest setback in getting to live their dream. Old stereotypes still exist in many things but women have worked hard for the rights that exist. They have made huge strides in changing the way society looks at them from the past. The fact that they have had an endless fight to freedom, it will never be enough for men, especially those who have lost their jobs to strong willed women. One thing that women must understand is that women are still stereotyped, many times, in regard to jobs. In many cases, a man is chosen over a woman in a particular field. Women aren't to be given titles... especially if those women can do extraordinary task that no man could do better, because they are men, and women are so much more different than men. Women are important in our society. They are nurses, teachers, lawyers, police officers, jailers, writers, sales clerks, managers, accountants, business leaders, and so much more. Women make a difference. Women get involved. Women volunteer more than men do. Much of what has been accomplished in communities is due to the women that volunteer for different groups. These women get things done. It could be part of their nurturing. Not only are they apart of so many career paths that women juggle many things in everyday life. For those who are married, or have children, it is even more of a balancing act. No matter how many things that women can prove to do, men will never accept nor understand. In their minds, they know that they will always be the best when in reality women are just as amazing as they think they are. Women are practically superheroes but in reality but the reality is that women will never get the chance to live the American dream. Men are too caught up in their opinions on women that nothing help them sir come the facts. This is the reality women must live with and keep working their hardest to prove that they aren't just a figure but a figure that knows how to make people hear what they have to say, clear all thoughts of them, and live to experience the feeling of living the American dream. Our fight will never be over, this is only just the beginning.