1920-1930

          In 1920, the year the 19th Amendment was ratified, the average bride was only 21 years old.  In the 1920s, the long-fought battle for women's suffrage was won, Gaining the right to vote inspired women to get involved in politics like never before. The first World Exposition of Women’s Progress welcomed nearly 160,000 people in 1925.  Only 19 percent of college degrees were awarded to women. By 1928 that number rose to 39 percent.

1940-1950s

At this time women were having children at 22 that means they had to be a mother before they decided what they wanted to do with there life.  The first half of the 20th century saw two major wars, but both of these epic conflicts had no women in combat. It wasn't until 1948, when Congress passed the Women's Armed Services Integration Act, which allowed women to serve in the military and earn veterans benefits.  Even in the 1950s, the average age for the birth of a woman's first child was just 22. That means that half of all American women were mothers before their 22nd birthday.
 

1960-1970s

Until 1978 women would get fired from their job if they were pregnant. That means they would lose any job they had a the age 22.  Women weren’t even allowed to get a credit cards unless there husband co-signed it up until 1974.  Women may make 77 cents to every man's dollar today, but the numbers were much worse years ago, when women made as little as 59 cents for every man's dollar back in 1963 (think about it: we've only made up 18 cents over the last 53 years; that's one third of a cent per year). But lacking pay wasn't the only problem working women faced.  Using the justification that women shouldn't be asked to leave the home, or that their sensibilities were too delicate to hear the gory details during a trial, women in many states couldn't serve on a jury until 1973, when female jurors were permitted in the courtroom throughout the country.

Newer than 2000s

On January 21, over 5 Million people marched in the women's right parade worldwide and over 1 Million in Washington, D.C., came to march.  That made me really happy. But not everything has changed. When I was looking for some good women role models I went on a site where everything was pink! That is very stereotypical.  Women's football is not okay.  For the Fifa games the women won it all! But only made $2 million you might be thinking thats a lot of money, but compared to the men the men made $35 million. That is a $33 million difference.  If you have every watched American Ninja Warrior then you would know that every year more and more women try to do what only men have done and every year more and more women make it.  Kacy Catanzaro was the first women to every make up the warp wall but another women that same year did it too.   

 

          But we can change this the more we speak out the better it will get.  I hope by the time i'm 25 (which I'm only 11) the women soccer team will be getting paid an equal amount to the men soccer team and women will never ever be told they can't do something because they are a girl!  If someone tells you your not good enough to do that or be that. You have two options either you ignore them or  say "Maybe not today maybe not tomorrow but I will do it, and you are not going to change my mind"

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