Ant Guide q. 4

Women Today are more often treated by men as equals rather than objects.

I agree with this statement to an extent. While I do believe it has gotten better in the United States, it isn’t like we aren’t objectified at all. In fact, with many pop and rap songs of today, women are seen as objects above anything, sometimes as a man’s property. Sexism is so common in the world today, it is hard to believe it could have been any worse sometimes.

One way it has improved is the fact that women can have jobs. If you go back even one-hundred years, it was very uncommon for a woman to have a job. They were thought to belong in the kitchen and take care of the children, and that was all. Now, while women get paid a lot less for the same job as a man, around $.75 to the man’s dollar, women still have jobs.

For example, I once saw a political cartoon of two construction workers of both genders. The man was carrying a heavy box and the woman a substantially lighter one. The woman was complaining about how it was unfair that they be paid different amounts. This was supposed to counter the complaint of inequality on payment as I mentioned in the last paragraph. This is untrue because you won't get less work just because of your gender.

Also, women are now allowed to vote, in comparaison to not.

This is not every situation, this is just in general, and in all, the situation has improved a lot.