Gender and Power:
Women in the Workplace


The end of the 60's ended with the National Organization for Women being formed and best of all- a beauty pageant! You'd think women would like this right... wrong. Feminist protested this pageant for Miss America. The N.Y.R.W was the group who protested. They protested the pageant for being sexist and racist since no black women had taken place among he finalists. The women's movement gained momentum and the media increasingly took it seriously. The Miss America pageant telecasted and was ne of the highest rated programs of the year. I mean, who doesn't love beautiful women.

Over alllllll these years women continued to prove themselves, they were more than just a pretty face. Women were doing things men were and more. This period of time was probably my favorite to learn and blog about, because women weren't just fighting for more freedom, they were taking the freedom they had and they were changing things for themselves. In today's society, women are still fighting in the wars, taking birth control and attending beauty pageants. Things have continued to change though.
Women are very much appreciated in the wars today, but they aren't as appreciated as much as men are. Whenever I see a veteran being appreciated it's always been a man. A wounded man most of the time; I have yet to see women being put on this pedestal right next to men. As for birth control, we have come a long way with that. We have created more methods of birth control and although abortions are still being done the rates are much lower than in the 60's. Prostitution is still a thing but nowadays condoms are being promoted and most of the time women are hoping the men have one. Everything has changed for the better, except for beauty pageants. Now every country, state, city, and town have beauty pageants. Women competing against each other instead of encouraging each other like they did in the past. What a shame. Yes, beauty pageants can be fun but they set a certain image for women- skinny and dumb. When most of them are probably not dumb but that's how they are portrayed. Sad. But, at least the important things in life are changing for the better. Not only are these things changing, more and more women of different cultures are standing up for themselves. See what happens when one women starts the change, she gives hope to women who are born decades after.