Roles of Women in America

             The role of women in American society has been greatly overseen in the last few decades but now are coming to a more perspective on people. In the early days, women were seen as wives who were intended to cook, clean, and take care of the kids. They were not allowed to vote while men took care of having jobs and paying any bills that had to be paid. Soon enough it caught on that women should have a bigger role than what other people thought women should have. Women would have strikes and go on marches to prove that they should have rights just like everyone else. They faced discrimination like any other race that faced it. Women would voice their opinion in any way possible so that they could reach their goal and they did.
             Women have made vast improvements in their lifestyles in the past few decades from holding positions in governments to simple things like getting a job and supporting themselves. Men have a tendency to leave their wives due to the fact that they had their child and the father was not committed enough or not ready to be a "father."
             Women are faced with more responsibly than men but also are faced with a lot more problems than men because they are looked at like a woman a bearer of children. It is a fact that men shouldn't abuse their wives and it's true, but they still are. Thousands of legal cases of domestic violence are seen throughout the country.
             Abortion is also another problem that women are faced with. Morality is an issue with this as women are sometimes not ready to be a mother and their husbands or boyfriends have already left them. Men usually just walk away from the situation but women have to choose to either have the baby or have it "aborted". Some people say it is a sin to let women have an abortion because they say they are killing a baby and the baby is still innocent and has nothing to do with it. People also say that the baby is not yet developed and the women should have a choice to eithe...

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