Feminist movements, such as achieving the right to vote in the 1920’s, and the push for equality in the workforce and education in the 1970’s, brought to light, more than eve

Career women have also been big supporters of the equality of the sexes. They often promote the idea to young girls to not be confined in the household, where those duties are unfulfilling, but to go out and explore the world. Now it probably was not their intention to undermine their femininity, but they just wanted to provide women with a choice. But again, femininity was sacrificed. Often times, women who chose a career had to sacrifice family, which is more prevalent today. We see a lot more women wanting to have children after they have established their career, only to find out that they are past their prime and can no longer bear children. Oprah even addressed this issue in one of her shows, that women were having children too late in life. She, herself, even admitted that she knew she wanted a successful career and did not have children because one of the two would eventually be sacrificed.

Feminism’s goal was to establish equality amongst the sexes. To establish this goal, females started to imitate males to show they were equal to them. The fatal flaw in this equation is that females admitted they had to change themselves to be equal, and men did not have to change a thing. Maybe it can be called reverse feminism, the idea that men possibly felt more superior as women were trying to be just like them. Whatever you want to call it, femininity was lost. This presented women with the idea that they should not be proud of what wonderful attributes they were born with. Their femininity was inadequate, and to be successful, they would have to behave like men.

r, the inequalities of the sexes. These movements brought attention to basic human rights; that politics, education, and employment should be equally accessible to the sexes. But as women moved into the workforce, they found that to be successful in their career, they would have to model male behavior. In Holly Devor’s essay, “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender,” she supports this claim of modeling male behavior. She claims that “research shows that dominant pe

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