Gender Inequality in America |
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Gender inequality has persisted throughout history. During the 1820s and 30s, most states had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of their economic wealth or the property they had. During that time, reform groups began proliferating across the United States, including religious movements and moral- reform societies, abolitionists, and more. In many of these organizations, especially those who opposed slavery, women played a prominent role. Eventually, women all over America created a women's movement that fought for gender equality. Through protests and disruption in society, women eventually gained the right to vote in 1920. Because women were still discriminated against because of their gender, especially in the labor force, the National Women's Party proposed an amendment to the Constitution in 1923 that prohibited all discrimination on the basis of sex. This Equal Rights Amendment, however never been ratified.
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Why Gender Equality? |
Gender Equality Changes Over the Years
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With gender equality, everyone receives equal pay for equal work. With this concept in mind, pay equality would help America become among the richest nations in the world. This economic growth would allow America to help reduce the cost of academic institutions and universities, decrease the number of homeless people in the United States, and improve life for minorities as well as the majority. With these changes, more people would become educated and a higher number of people would become successful, thus allowing America, as a nation, to prosper. Equal pay for equal work would allow the government to economically prosper and thus would allow them to help more people, especially the poor, therefore decreasing the number of homeless people.