An avid student of history born in 1929, I can see educated women, once universally a big no-no because we were considered too “emotional” to handle an education, have come a long way in the matter of freedom of choice, earnings and power. But we are still burdened with restrictions set upon us by a political party fraught with fundamentalist religious beliefs that swear women must be subservient to men and must not be allowed to avail themselves of birth control, as the harvest from their uteruses is the only real thing of value they have to contribute, besides their cooking and slaving. No, we are not considered equals as yet in most places or by most men. Women who state that they are happy and content with their own situations in this life are being blind and unempathetic to the vast oceans of women all about them on this planet who are suffering terribly. In Darfur, in Kosovo, in every little and large state which has ever been invaded and genocide attempted, the first to be defiled, raped and butchered are the women. Most of us have been raised to believe men view women as saintly and to be honored, cherished and defended. Foegedaboudit! That is not the way it really is. There is an overwhelmingly strong and deep vein of female resentment and disgust running through most males in most societies. My husband believed firmly in equality of the sexes, and constantly proved this to me and to our daughters and other female kin. Yours may as well and all, but that is NOT the proof of the pudding! Think again! Look about you! Ask, if you don’t know; ask those who study the social orders of this world! We have a long, long way to go yet. But also yes, for we have come a long way since my birth. And I, too, ask this simple question: Why no ERA?

I know that we have come a long way. I know it has been a struggle for women. I know that the end is not yet here, but everyday is a beginning for women to prove that there should be equality of the sexes. We should grasp the chance and move foreward with no regrets. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… A famous man once said, many decades ago: The extension of women’s rights is the basic principle of all social progress. … Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. - Thomas Jefferson … …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

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I know that there is salary differences in the larger corporate cities, but in small town America there is simply job differences. I work in a man’s world and it is an uphill climb at times on a daily basis. It is not coming just from those I work with but mostly from the customers I deal with.

hmmm, hard one to answer. In my country, we’ve still got a long way to go, but we’ve still got far more equality then a great deal of the countries in this world. And a lot of the stuff I read about women’s equality in the American society (or lack of it)… it’s shocking!! And would never have been tolerated here!!!

It’s up to mothers and grandmothers to explain to our sons, daughters and grandchildren what equality is. I don’t think a lot of women understood/understand the women’s movement, I’m not sure I understood it at the time. There are people (not WOW women) that thought it was about bra burning and women hating men. I don’t think a lot of young women (and men) are really aware what it is about and why it is important. I work for a young (educated) man that doesn’t understand why I’m a woman not a girl. I have explained to him that if two men worked for him, he would not say, give the papers to the boys or leave a message with one of my boys.He would call them men or he would call them by name. While he agrees that he would never say that he doesn’t have a clue why it is important.

we have come a long way and have a long way to go i’m more concerned about how we get there and why do we just want women to achive things because they are women or are we bring something different and important to the table and if we are not going to bring some empathy and common sense to the table i really don’t believe it matters if it men or women

Women have come a long way! However, we have many hurdles to cross. I am a women in engineering environment of our government. When push comes to shove the males are the dominate. We need to strive and lobby hard to stop workplace bullying. Under EEOC- people have the rights to hold their positions without discrimination, harassment, bullying along with fair and equitable pay but the laws are grossly inadequate throughout the United States. All too often, targets leave their jobs, not because they are fired, but because they can no longer withstand the psychological violence of the abuse. I believe women are a large majority of the victims.

The enigma that is woman. I was recently reminded of this in an interview of Billie Jean King who reminded us the before the infamous match with Bobbie Riggs, the sport of tennis never received much television coverage. After the match the coverage of mens and womens tennis exploded, yet she laments that she is usually congratulated for her impact on “women’s tennis”, when she actually changed the face of tennis for all. When women finally receive the credit for our impact on this world, it will be an incredible place for each and every one of us.

With apologies to all the sons raised by strong women, we’ve come a long way in the sense that there are women of influence and/or power throughout the world … in the arts, politics, and commerce. We haven’t gone as far as we thought we had when the best person to lead the most powerful country on the planet has been pushed aside for yet another person of Y “chromosomity.”

I am employed in health care as a nurse practitioner. There is still inequality in what historically has been a female profession. Male NPs are typically paid more than females! In addition, there are PAs and NPs with the same job description where the PAs are paid more because they are male! I am a single mom (who adopted a toddler after my divorce) so there is no dad to pay child support. If I don’t pay my bills, no one does.

i was wondering whether we would be celebrating women’s equality day. i have a personal memory of this day in 1973, when the national credit union administration with bella abzug’s influence accepted the feminist federal credit union as a legitimate financial institution. we have come a long way since then. everybody needs to applaud joanne parent and valerie klaetke. they started it. they gave me a line of credit i paid off and thus established credit for myself.

Okay, I’m probably a bit older than some of you. I remember my grandmother talking about women winning the right to vote. I remember newspaper accounts of womens bodies being found after botched abortions, I remember a sister who had five children in seven years and was overwhelmed but her husband didn’t like birth control. I remember at some point realizing that all freedoms that came to women came after they could control their reproductive health and vote, so, yes, there is much to do, but for the first time in the history of humanity, women can control their reproductive lives and vote. The rest is important, however, without these two rights, we go back to being brood mares.