Women Restricted Today...and Tomorrow?

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This paper looks at the restrictions imposed by society that women must live under. Mores specifically, the paper discusses the restrictions placed on women in education, sexuality, the workplace and the home and explains how society imposes these restrictions because of longstanding societal rules about women's roles and their behavior. The paper also looks at how these restrictions have held women back from cultural advancement.

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"Today in US society, women are pressured to fit a certain ideal. We are expected to conform to a set of rules that have been in place in American society for decades. Even though times are changing and opportunities seem to be easier to come by for women today than in the early part of the century, women are still held down by the restrictions these perfect ideals place on them. Our role in the home and in the workplace is constrained to that which the patriarchy has for so long led us to believe is correct. These restrictions are very evident in our everyday lives, including violence against us, poor healthcare, forced sexuality, and even lower pay and less valued jobs. This evidence is what sustains the patriarchy, and thus what restricts women to remain in the positions that we have for so long fought against."

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