Equality: Inequality In The United States

Equality is the state of being equal in status, rights, and opportunities. While we might have equality there will always be forms of inequality that are present in our everyday life and society. Inequality comes from society, religion, economics, and politics. In the world it is easy to have inequality and hard to gain equality because equality is hard to determine while inequality is obvious. It is obvious to know when someone is being misrepresented, mistreated, and labeled as second-class citizens. The obvious aspects of inequality can sometimes make equality appear with no value. This leads to the question how is equality evaluated? Is it the state of mind of being free and being able to do what other people do or is it the doctrines and laws that state you are equal? These …show more content…
Society is sometimes a hypocrite because they preach equality and fairness, but often never show it. This often happens to people with a different way of living and sometimes the cultural shock alone is enough to draw the people away who already reside there. In society women are sometimes if not a lot of times consider second-class citizens. In the Declaration of Sentiments the inequality women inexperience and still do has a lot to do with the society norms of Americans’. In the past women were basically housewives who obeyed their spouse. Women did not have many privileges and were given a set of demands that they have to do typically by their spouse. They did not have a voice in the economy or in public affairs and this made women revolt and start a movement and the Declaration of Sentiments is one small step that was taking to take awareness to women’s inequality in the world. In the Declaration of Sentiments it discusses women in marriage and how they were made civilly dead. This statement comes from the fact when