Part one of term paper
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” continue to stagnate and even degrade back to traditional ideal ...

Part two of term paper
... force in their life. I find many parallels between women’s experiences in the nineties with Betty Friedan’s, in her essay “The Way We Were-1949.” She dealt with a society that expected women to fulfill certain roles. Those roles completely disregarded the needs of educated and motivated businesswomen and scientific women. Actually, the subtle message that society gave was that the educated woman was actually selfish and evil. I remember in a particular story I once read and the effect ...