Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990s

Part I of Essay
Overall, the rights and status of women have improved considerably in the last century; however, gender equality has recently been threatened within the last decade. Blatantly sexist laws and practices are slowly being eliminated while social perceptions of “women’s role” ....

Part II of Essay
.... woman was actually selfish and evil. I remember in a particular story I once read and the effect it had on me. It was a story in the McCall Magazine dated December 1949, called “A Weekend with Daddy.” A little girl, who lives a lonely life with her mother, who is divorced, and intellectual know-it-all psychologist, goes to the country to spend a weekend with her farther and his new wife, who is wholesome, happy, a good cook and gardener. There is love, laughter, growing flowers, hot clams and a gourmet cheese omelet, and square dancing, ....