Scott Sanders's 'The Men We Carry In Our Minds'

The Men We Carry in Our Minds Gender equality has been a very popular subject scattered throughout the years. Many historic events have been achieved in the last century. The 1920s women were given the right to vote. Now in 2016, nearly one hundred years later a woman is running for president. Scott Sanders addresses women 's rights in his nonfiction story, “The Men We Carry in Our Minds,” but in way that makes you think of both men and women, thus giving an open door for it turning into gender equality. Sanders argues that the men were basically the work horses in the mid-century, but that belief is no longer the way things are today. There are many ways today in which gender equality is not yet official. In her article, “States Take Lead On Equal Pay, With Legislation Stalled In Congress,” Samantha Lachman talks about a very important difference in men and women. While women do the equivalent to what men do in the …show more content…
He believed that men worked for everything and did everything for women. A lot of people today still believe that. Some people may not believe it, but do not believe that there are “gender issues,” either. Gender issues are real. There is a wage gap, there are fewer women in power than men, there are women who have the same qualifications in a field as a man, who do not get the position due to their gender. There are so many gender issues in the world that makes gender equality seem unreachable. If people would open their eyes like Sanders had his eyes opened when he joined college, they would see that gender equality does not exist. Maybe then, as a whole, we could do something about it. Each day we move closer and closer to achieving gender equality. This year we have a woman running for president and is top in her democratic party. Women are moving closer and closer to their place; To sit equally with