Women's Inequaltites in American Schools
Women's Inequality in American Schools Inequality in the American schools and work place has been, and continues to be a serious problem. Despite the improvements in such equalities, males and females continue to experiences unfair gaps in certain aspects in life. While the equality among genders has developed over the past several years, there is some evidence to indicate that females continue to experience unequal treatment in the educational system suggesting that males remain in a superior status over women. A couple of centuries ago education was generally existent to the wealthy; many believed that working was more important than schooling the youth. However, in 1647, the Old Deluder Satan Act was enacted; this law required that every town provide education for the youth (Johnson & Dupuis, 2003, p.200). Later, compulsory education laws were passed within the following two centuries. According to Johnson and Dupuis (2003), compulsory education laws required school attendance on the theory that it is to the benefit of the state or commonwealth to educate all people. By 1900, the majority of the states required all children to attend school. Moreover, it was not until 1944, that the National Education Association (N
America's mothers were the nation's first teachers; it did not take long for others to understand that before a woman can teach her own children she must also have the ability to teach herself (Sadker, 1994). "By the second half of the nineteenth century, education for girls and women had undergone a revolution" (Sadker, 1994, p. Education has prevented women from obtaining equal status in society, separating them from their male counterparts. It was not until the sixties that women stood up for another long fight; just as the fight in the 1840s and 1850s for abolition of slavery had spurred women to fight for their own freedom, so did the fight in the 1960s against racism. However, they were finally able to escape from the social constraints through education. The eighties represented the working girl era. Females were to master the domestic skills and stay at home where they belonged. Freud believed "women are lesser human beings, childlike dolls; their bodies and minds fit them best for housework and the bearing of children and the service of men" (Carlson, 1973). That day marked a turning point in the history of women. The technology from the nineteenth century, along with the birth-control devices of the twentieth century women's freedom was inevitable. The equality among males and females had finally reached a fair battleground, or so it seemed. "Women were stripped of their dignity and privileges by men of the community and even by their own husbands" (Carlson, 1973, p. Even though, after the 1920's, women had won many great rights and freedoms, science as well as public opinion was still against them.
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