Women are considered to be a historically recognized minority group because they do not share the same power, privileges, rights, and opportunities as men. (Boundless) As an American woman I am aware of the treatment of women in today’s American society, and in this paper I shall look back at past accomplishments of women attempting to create fairness and freedom for women as a whole. It disturbs me that women who are victims of a crime do not go to court to report such crimes because of the way that the court treats women as if they may have “deserved” to be raped, beaten, or otherwise attacked by a male. In the United States, women have had less legal rights as men and have been treated as socially secondary and subordinate to men since
