Women's Rights

This month we have been reading books about the rights of women and it is also Martin Luther King Day. The rights of women and the fight they had to go through reminds me of the struggle that African Americans had to go through to gain rights. Women had to prove themselves as equal and African Americans had to do the same. The women would stand outside of the white house and boycott the white house, while african americans boycotted and went to restaurants that wouldn't serve them, or they would sit in the back of the bus. This just shows that to get what you want you have to work for it. This reminds me a lot of A Thousand Splendid Suns. It does because in a way the women in the middle east were treated as minorities and they had almost all their right stripped from them. Even though this is the decline of women's rights, A Thousand Splendid Suns, shows that the women recognized that the Taliban were in the wrong, but if they tried to retaliate they would just be killed. I am also reminded of A Thousand Splendid Suns because it shows how controlling one group of men are and how they can take rights away as easily as rights were given. I also feel that women are still downgraded by some men today in the United States even though women are said to have "equal rights". This topic of women's rights sometimes confuses me and is very controversial even today. Some men think that women should stay home, clean, cook dinner, and take care of the kids, others think that women should also have a job but then some men think that the roles should be reversed. I don't really know if there is a better way but I do think that women and African Americans have come a long way, but in my opinion, they are still not equal to the typical white male.