Back in the 1900’s women were not treated as equal as men. Men would get paid a lot more than women when women would work for longer and harder than men. Lots of businesses wouldn’t hire women though because they thought they weren’t as good as men. But thankfully things have changed, but are they all the way equal?
‘Changes in the activities and representation of women and men in society have unquestionably occurred since the early 1980s; however, those changes apparently have not been sufficient to alter strongly held and seemingly functional beliefs about the basic social category of gender,’ commented researchers Elizabeth L.
Haines, Kay Deaux and, Nicole Lofaro. Some studies were done that compared men and women from 1983 to 2014 and the results were that the male and female were quite similar. Females stereotype for psychological traits was very similar to male’s stereotype. In 2014 males and females were believed to have more equally financial roles than they did in 1982.
Beliefs that males do all the repairs on cars and females do more office and computer work still hasn’t changed between 1983 and 2014. ‘Previous research has shown that many gender differences are small or inconsistent yet the current study finds that people exaggerate the extent to which men and women are different from one another,’ continued the researchers. ‘People may perceive strong differences between men and women for two reasons. First, unconscious bias may distort the way in which people perceive and thus remember gender atypical behavior as more stereotypical that it actually was.
Second, the genders may curtail cross-gender behavior for fear that they may incur backlash that is typically directed at atypical men and women (e.g., wimpy men or powerful women).’
There have been lots done from the women to try to make it to where there are equal rights. Susan B. Anthony was an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local women’s rights organizations. She was a teacher and she was getting paid $2.50 a month but then males were getting paid $10 a month. Lucy Stone was an early advocate of antislavery and women’s rights. She said in 1847, “I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.” She was an organizer of the 1850 Worcester First National Woman’s Rights Convention. She also participated in the convention and addressed the audience. It is her 1852 speech at the National Woman’s Rights Convention in Syracuse, New York, which is credited for converting Susan B. Anthony to the cause of women’s rights. Matilda Joslyn Gage made her first public speech at the third national Women’s Rights Convention in Syracuse in 1852, and rapidly became a leader in the women’s rights movement. Without these people and many more, this county would not be where it is today.
People feel that our world is still led by men, whether it’s within the government, environmental sector, STEM fields or as the head of the household. Today women are not aloud to do all the jobs that men do, or they feel judged if they do the job. Twenty-two states have never had a woman for their governor. There was an online test to women and eighty percent of women reported feeling more confident about their path to run for office after completing the training.
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