Females in 21st Century

If we look at the many decades of how women were treated over the past 100 years, you would think that we have come a long way to get where we are now but is it really at the stage we want it at?

Is it becoming easier for woman or is it becoming more difficult to live in the 21st century? Are people relying on women more? This has been a big issue especially to women over the past years. It is debated that if women live an easy life these days than ever before. It is easy to think we have come so far compared with the 18th and 19 century. This is when women had no say in anything they did or said. This was a time where women couldn't work and had to stay home and look after the children while the husband went to work, when they didn't have legal rights.

Women in the 18th and 19th century were only wives and mothers. They were not allowed to go into the workforce. They had to stay at home. They had no political rights. When women started to work in the workplace they only earned 54% of a male's wage, until equal pay was introduced in 1970. We have come such a long way sense then, from having no power, and no freedom. We were the 'property' of our husbands, this included the forcible sex and abuse that were allowed, but we didn't think anything of it. To think about it now is disgraceful to society. In the past being a female was incredibly difficult. Sense then, we have definitely come a long way in the way that we are treated, respected and the rights. The 20th century was the biggest turn around for women and it only can improve from now.

Has a woman's need for love and partnership been traded out for success and independence ?

Although some people believe this is the case, others do not. They believe that living in the 21st century is harder than ever. We have coming such a long way sense equal pay was introduced but we still are not as equal as men, as we believe. Men still earn, in a year, more money than a woman in the same job. Also in higher professions men are more likely to be hired over women. Does society still believe that men are better than women?

Women may have been regarded as the fairer sex but once we decided to take control of our lives and responsibility for our fate and stop using men as an excuse as to why we can't achieve anything, the action began. Women took on the challenge to match or exceed the abilities and level of success of their male counterparts from academics, to body building to business to politics, medicine, science and the arts without gender advantage.

As women in the 21st century, many people still believe that women should be mothers, be mothers because they want to be, because they have a choice. They are expected to have a job as well as children. This does seem like a radical change compared to the 1900's. Women finally