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Many of us through our schooling always come out thinking
that the only role a woman served in the past was as the caretaker of their families and
their households. Women are hardly recongnized for work that they've done over the
past. Especially because society was against them being anything more than a
servant. Woman weren't even able to vote until about 80 years ago. Compared
to when the constitution was written and the amount of time we've had our government for I
consider that a slap in the face.
The point is: women accomplished far more than we officially give them credit
for. Their contributions are quite impressive, especially considering that they worked
without societal support and
often in spite of legal restrictions.
Even today, women's contributions are acknowledged less readily than men's. Their names
and accomplishments
are still being left out of school textbooks. Perhaps the powers that be do not find it in
their best interest to promote
women, just like they don't bother to promote people of different races, although a sense
of fair play would require
that they do. Women, in general, are paid less for their work, too. Embarrassing, isn't
it?
I think it's time to give women their due. They deserve credit according to their
contribution, not according to their
sex. We need to know what they did and how they did it so that we may learn from them and
be inspired by them.
We need this to be common knowledge.