Women have made some great strides since then....and men, as they relate to women, have, as well. But I guess not as much as we all thought.
It's so heartening to see all the women running for office, women as lawyers and doctors and dentists and executives, in addition to still being bookkeepers, secretaries, assistants, cashiers. Like men, women now hold positions across the spectrum of jobs that exist. In my youth, this wasn't the case. In my area of the country, there were no women doctors or executives or accountants or engineers. Women were mainly secretaries, teachers, nurses. And "homemakers," of course.
Young women just don't know. They just don't know what it was like. We were legally paid less only because we were women. My Social Security, decades later, reflects that. If I had been male, my SS would be more, pretty much no matter what I had done for a living. Men were paid more. That's the way it was.
I read my first women's rights magazine article when I was 15 years old. It had such an impact on me that I remember reading it; I was in the back seat of the family car with mom and my sisters in the car.
I look forward to voting for some women politicians in 2018. I hope they run for everything!
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