In 2017, approximately four million international citizens marched in cities around the world in a protest of gross gender discrimination that permeates every level of society. However, the mere notion of national suffrage for women was not guaranteed until the ratification of the nineteenth amendment in 1920. Even then, modern day gender-centric topics, such as reproductive rights and equal wages for equal work, were nowhere near the public limelight. With the rise of women on the homefront during World War Two, the women’s rights movement once again gained serious traction, but the movement’s success was short lived. Despite ambiguous advocacy on the part of well-known author Tennessee Williams and his revolutionary play A Streetcar Named
