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The Real Gender Equality

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For the most part, when someone hears sexual orientation, all they really hear is gay. When they hear race, they hear African-American, Latino, Chinese and so on. When they hear gender equality they hear, women. The issue that our society faces is that we automatically associated specifics when that not truly equality at all. It goes without saying that we have indeed as the United States and in some parts of the world have come a long way as far as gender inequality as a whole. But we have yet to succeed in making things equality for both men and women. Gender equality will be achieved when women and men possess the constant laws when it comes to income, decision-making, job opportunities, religion, and protection against laws as well as when the actions, ambitions, and necessities are met. In the nineteenth century on family farms the farm could not function without the men and women both contributing. The men did bring, financially, more in. But when we take a deeper look at what it took to survive back then, the cooking, the cleaning, the preparing of food, it would appear that women were needed just as much as men were if not more. As the economy grew and items were able to be bought rather than needing to be home made women’s work rapidly decreased. Instead it became known that women would stay home and tend to the needs of the children and husband while it became know that the men did the more “manly” things such as going to work and caring for the family financially. The Women’s Right Movement began as early as 1848 when the first women’s rights convention when a two day debate finally came to the determination that, “12 resolutions is adopted calling for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women.”(Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.) The only problem with that is that it isn’t apparent nowadays. According to Women Deliver “Women work 2/3 of the world’s hours yet earn 1/10 o

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