Some people like to pin precise dates for when woman and man could be considered equal. A popular date for some is August 18th, 1920, the day that the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified by Congress, giving women the right to vote. However, not all people consider the fight for women's equality, which was a long and hard struggle, to have an ending date. More importantly, there are some that still consider women inferior to men, and even today, some women have to fight to receive the same wages as men.
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Do you think that women and men are entirely considered equal by a majority of people? If not, can a majority ever believe such? Also, what is the date you feel that all genders came closest to becoming equal (if they didn't become completely equal at the time)?
Frankly, the real question is "should they be equal?" Doesn't each gender have various qualities that they bring to the "plate of humanity?" Men cannot bare children. Women can. On average, men's bodies are developed to be stronger than the female's (this isn't to say that women can't be strong - for example, my daughter does Cross Fit and can lift 170 lbs...due to training). These are only 2 slight examples of the make-up differences between men and women. There are also a number of psychological differences between men and women; different ways that we each approach a number of things.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't to say that women shouldn't be paid the same as men for the same type of job, but when we speak of "equality" it just seems to completely go against nature. Nothing in nature is equal to another. Not one single thing.
Just food for thought...
I understand that equality is non existent in nature, and that women and men have had different roles throughout history (men do the hunting, women do the cooking, etc.). However, your argument is more of a natural and biological argument, while I was thinking more of the social aspect. In that regard, humanity has gone against nature before. An example is Dolly, the first clone. Nature "planned" for normal reproduction, but some humans consider the social issue of cloning to be beneficial. This all means that, just because nature goes one way, humans can and will go a different way. Just because women and men have different bodies to accomplish different roles, humans can think beyond nature, in a way that works instead for the benefit of our society.
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