As I did the reading, I realized I had forgotten how hard people fought for the freedoms I take for granted everyday. I speak my mind and write my thoughts without worrying that I might be punished. Yet there was actually a time that doing so was unheard of. What I had forgotten most of all was how different life as a woman would have been back then. I can’t imagine how my life would be if I had to give everything I owned to my husband or if I did not have the right to education. That makes me thankful to see how far we’ve come as a country since then.
However, while women have more freedom now than they did in the time of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, we are still not equal to men. We have made vast improvements yes, but but equality is still something we have to achieve. For example, women still face the struggle of being paid lower wages than men with whom she has the same qualifications. Or a woman’s reproductive rights aren’t solely her own, but a government issue and a political platform. I think that while, yes, improvements toward equality have been made worldwide, there is still a long way to go before everything and everyone is on an equal scale.
