Gender Issues: Have Woman's Rights Improved?
             Twenty-five years ago, when my mother was little she had three career
             choices available to her, a teacher, a nurse, or a secretary. So as the I was
             growing up my mother made sure that I knew that I could be whatever I wanted
             to be, when I grew up. With this belief in mind I set my goal as becoming the first
             woman President of the United States, but as I started to work towards this goal I
             realized that what she did not tell me about were the obstacles that I would have
             to overcome to succeed in a "man's world". There are three main barriers
             standing in a woman's way to achieve her career goal they are men, the media ,
             According to Bob Enyart "Women were not made to run things. Men were
             made to run things. When women try to run things and usurp the authority from
             men they mess things up." This type of attitude from men is what keeps woman
             from surpassing them in the world. Most grown men view women only as
             housewives, incapable of nothing else. In the minds of some men women were
             meant to stay at home and clean the house, raise the children, and cook the
             meals. Even when woman decided to join the work force they had few careers to
             choose from. It was not until the late 1980's that woman were accepted in to
             higher paying careers by the men that were already dominating the workforce.
             Even today when they are accepted into the workforce they are still not paid as
             much as men for doing the same work. A 1998 study shows that a woman in the
             same job as a man with the same expectations and responsibilities, the woman
             is paid ten to fifteen percent less then the man.
             The media or television programs are also to blame for the image that is
             given to woman. Women play passive roles, in movies and even TV sitcoms. For
             example in the sitcom Dharma and Greg, which is about a young married
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