We have all heard the famous line, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal”. When we listen to those words, what do we think about? I know that when I hear them, I think about women in history compared to women today.
Before my time, women’s place was in the kitchen, not in the workplace. We were supposed to clean and cook all day and have a meal on the table when the men arrived home from work. Women were looked at as not having any rights or power. We struggled for a long time to get the rights and respect that we deserve.
The glass ceiling comes to mind when I think about discrimination against women. Men have always been treated as dominant in the work place; they usually hold the higher executive positions in firms and corporations. Women could work the same as men, if not harder and better, but always stay in the same position at the same pay. They could see that they deserve the higher position and pay, but a man would receive it over the woman. Today, this situation has improved greatly, but I know it stills goes on in some places.
“…We insist that they [women] have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States.” The Declaration of Sentiments shows that women have been treated unfairly in the past and deserve the same rights as men do. We are citizens!
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