With this revolution, men can now make enough money to support their family. Women are now no longer necessary to a man’s economic mobility. Now with a bunch of free time, women are filled with ideas about justice and the first women’s movement struck out. The movement was giving women equal rights, but French and American revolutions chose not to go on. “Because women are no longer necessary for economic means, for the first time in world history, they are pursued for emotional purposes” (Manson). Love is now looked at as impractical. Younger generations of couple’s pursue love over economic success. The older generations believe the younger generations have a lack of …show more content…
Women are now able to have strictly recreational sex. They are allowed to control their fertility. This is very important. In 1964, a series of laws that promise pay is equal between each sex. Abortion becomes legal and divorces go up. “The first billboard of a scantily clad man appears in Times Square. The male body is now sexualized and objectified in pop culture. Men grow their hair long. Women cut their hair short. Meanwhile, after winning a series of legislative and legal victories over the past two decades, feminism invades academia, where they proceed to spend the next 10 years arguing over whether sex is good or bad, whether pornography causes rape, whether biological differences even exist at all, and whether women should just all just move to a remote island and become lesbians together. Men are afraid to say anything.”(Manson). In 1982 more women enroll in college than men. In 2000 and 2003 rape and domestic violence hit an all-time low decline. 2010 for the first time in history, women make up the majority of the workforce. Women are also getting more