Women's rights

Women's rights are something that are still being fought for today.  Things like a wage gap, and job discrimination are evident in todays society, and there roots can be traced back to any time in American history.  As we watched a series of commercials and skits in class, as well as songs by female artist, they all shared a common tone of oppression, and discrimination.  In short skits like the one explaining how to deal with women in the workplace, you could obviously see the prejudice that some owners had against women workers.  They truly believed that gender determined the efficiency of their workers.  Unfortunately, while ideas from these skits like that seem so far in the past, they are really not, and many people today still have the same false ideas.  That is why we still have these sorts of issues, people still believe that women are not able to complete jobs that can be stereotypically viewed as male jobs (ie. firefighters, police officers, service members etc.).  All of these professions can, and have been preformed by women at a high level that resulted in production that is just as good as a mans.  Also, as seen in another skit that we watched in class, some people just seem to think that a women's brain can not function at the capacity of a males.  Although what we watched was comical, it rooted from real ideas, that are present today.  Although these ideas are arounds, they are completely irrational!  While women have received educations of all sorts, and excelled in every single field in this world, some still seem to think otherwise.  That makes those people ignorant, and they obviously are being close minded and just do not want to see any women succeed.  In my opinion, if you think less of a person because of their gender, you cannot be that intelligent, and you are far worse than what you think of that person.