Throughout the challenge of women obtaining their equality in every sense there are many things about history and the human mind that have put obstacles in the way. William Henry Chafe will add to this idea saying that “To make the problem even more difficult, women constitute the only group which is treated unequally as a whole, but whose members live in greater intimacy with their ‘oppressors’ than with each other.” in his work “Women And Equality:Changing Patterns In American Culture.” There are many different things that cause people to mentally believe that women are inherently inferior. One of the biggest contributors you will see in the equality to both support and fight against them is religion and that plays heavily into people 's mental biology over time in history. In "Opening the Shutters: Gurneyite Quakerism and the Struggle for Women 's Equality in the Meeting for Business." the author Isaac May shows how that mental change can be difficult for some people stating “Men and women being help meet, are to see that all walk and live in order with the Gospel and to see that nothing is lacking; women in their assemblies may inform one another of the poor widows and fathers and in the wisdom of God may find the best way of setting forth of their children and see that their children are preserved in …show more content…
There is a long recorded history of female inequalities when it comes to an economical income or advantage in politics in any way. Kingsley R. Brown will mention that “Sex discrimination plays a role and complete understanding of workplace patterns requires us to look honestly at other factors.” in his study “Biology At Work : Rethinking Sexual Equality.” contributing to this thought. Nancy Burns and her colleges, Sidney Verba and Kay Lehman Schlozman, continues on this train of thought stating in their study The Private Roots Of Public Action : Gender, Equality, And Political Participation. that “With the exception of the question about whether an employed mother can establish secure relations with her child, there is a statistically significant association between the views of the members of couples on these matters.” Once again Simone de Beauvoir will help wrap up this thought by saying that “Furthermore, the women who seeks independence through work has less favorable possibilities than her masculine competitors. Her wages in most jobs are lower than those of men; her tasks are less specialized and therefore not so well paid as those of skilled laborers; and for equal work she does not get equal pay.” in The Second