WOMEN’S FIGHT FOR EQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES

Abstract

Women’s rights is a topic that often faces controversy when it should not have any discussion. Women’s rights are human rights. Equal rights are human rights. A constant battle between the rights of girls and women has been ongoing since the beginning of time. Court cases ranging from conception, abortions, earning a minimum wage, and the right to vote in our democracy have been significant issues in the fight for women’s rights. However, when is it enough? When will the war for women to have equal rights reach the victory line? As a society, we need to move forwards, not backward, for each year we are in this world together. The movement for women’s rights involved many women who have used passion, inspiration and change for all women. One woman that has demonstrated this is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a woman who led a tremendous battle for gender equality in the Supreme Court as the second women justice to serve in the court. Ginsburg once said, “I do not say women’s rights—I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship status of men and women.”1 Further emphasizing that women, like anyone else, deserves equality as it is a constitutional right. To further explain, during her years on the Supreme Court, she advocated for gay rights, women's rights, low-income people, and many other marginalized groups.