The Crucible Research Paper

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As Ruth Bader Ginsburg once said, “Women will only have true equality, when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation,” couldn’t have been said better. The idea that there is gender inequality in The Crucible connects to today’s society, being proven over and over again with the double standards between men and women and the imbalance of power with women not being able to speak their mind out of fear of being judged. From the very beginning, women have been mistreated due to their gender, like when women were fighting to get the right for them to vote. The women’s suffrage movement was a very long fight that lasted decades. Two women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, started the National Women’s Suffrage Association in 1869 to push for a women’s suffrage amendment …show more content…
When World War II happened, women still didn’t have the right to vote. Some felt guilty for continuing to picket the White House when it was under so much stress, but they continued to do so until they got arrested for obstruction of traffic, which wasn’t possible since they were on the sidewalk. After all of their hard work, the 19th amendment was passed on August 18th, 1920. As explained above, women had to do triple the work to get the same results that men have been having for ages. They got beat up for it just because they were women and men felt that they shouldn’t be able to have a say in politics, just like in The Crucible, with all of the higher ups only being men, and men who didn’t care what anyone else had to say about what was going on. It doesn’t stop there. Women inequality is found in sports all over. In 1972, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a force for women’s equality, filed a case for a girl named Abbe Seldin from New Jersey. The case involved Abbe wanting to play on the men’s varsity tennis team. There was no women’s team at her school and she was a nationally ranked