Using History to Move Forward
I believe I'm going to enjoy this course. I have been around long enough to see a good amount of gender discrimination. I am almost fifty years old, when i was a young woman growing up females were placed into three categories. Older females ages forty and above would be referred to as woman, females between twenty one years and forty was called young ladies and under twenty one were called girls. In Women Lives page five, ''Myth 1: Feminism Is Ideological,'' i was very amazed by the feminist discriminatory wages of seventy seven cents for women to every one dollar paid to men workers. History has shown us that before ' women suffrage' if an educated woman and an uneducated man applied for a job, the man would have the advantage over the woman. It should be also noted that it didn't matter if the woman had experience or not. Statistics printed in the article entitled ' Milestones in U.S. History: Institutionalizing and Challenging Social In Eq...