The women’s suffrage movement began in 1848, when the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Although women eventually won the right to vote in 1920, they continue to …show more content…
That day symbolizes on how far into the next coming year to earn just as much as a man did in the previous year. While the unequal pay gap has gotten smaller, woman makes 77 cents to every dollar a man makes, the progress has been stalling on recent years. Even though women get way more college degrees than males, but they still make more money in the long run. When I was little, my mom told me a story on how she was up for a raise. She had way more experience than the guy who got it. At that times, she has had been a nurse for ten years and the same education plus more than the guy who got it. That man was only a nurse for two-years and he got his hourly pay increased even though my mom was due for one. She told me that it was the fact that he got the raise because he was a man and bar buddies with the boss. Not only did that unequal pay affect her but our family as well. Unequal pay and rights to women have been going on way before I was born and probably will keep going until we make a