In Gloria Steinem's These Are Not the Best Days of Your Life and Scott Russell Sanders Looking at Women speak at somewhat opposite points. Steinem articulates the amount of success women are encountering nowadays, whereas Sanders thinks women present themselves as dolls more than anything else. Women are still undergoing discrimination, whether it be on the job or on the street it is still a part of everyday life.
Steinem speaks of how women are now coming onto college campus' in record numbers and while they may for the most part be treated as equals on campus, when they finally enter into the workforce they do not benefit from equal pay for equal work. Men's salaries are nearly double to what women make.
Sander's addresses that with the way women tend to dress, he isn't sure if he should observe them as dolls. He recalls a time when he was younger when he saw a young girl walking down the street wearing a very tight halter-top and short shorts. He feels as though she is only doing this to impress men, but as he looks back he does recall that she may have only been wearing that to stay cool during the summer months.
Women are now becoming more successful than ever, they are overcoming obstacles, now even overpopulating men on college campus'. While they are receiving their education Steinem claims that they are treated as equals even perhaps more equal than they will ever be treated again. Once they enter the workforce they will face more discrimination. Still they are making far less money than men, for basically the same jobs. Also if females are looking for jobs at the tops of industries employers are reluctant to hire them for fear that they will leave their job to start a family.
Women in sex and pornographic industries also make it hard for other women. Sanders speaks of his old college roommate's Playboy pinups covering the walls and so many men's fascination with...