First, the Civil Rights Movement started with the discrimination of blacks and their unequal treatment by society. …show more content…
For example, the gender pay gap has been existing since women could work. In 2015, female full-time workers made only 80 cents for every dollar earned by men, leading to a gender wage gap of twenty percent between both sexes. The ideology of “men work harder than women” is absurd. A woman can do the same tough job of a man, if she proposed to it. Women have been earning less than men, because it is believed that they can’t work as hard as men do. However, there is a controversy in this idea because of physical strength, but today there are fit women who can do a better job than a man can. Also, education falls into place with this inequality because back then women only had three degrees to choose from in which being a housewife was one of them. Furthermore, with the ratification of the ERA women are now involved in Congress like Sandra Day O’ Connor and Hillary Clinton who ran for president in these past presidential elections. Correspondingly, women are seen the “weaker” sex which leads to sex