Two students from the same high school under the same teacher aspire to become doctors in their future. The teacher encourages one student to work towards becoming a doctor while discouraging the second student and advising the second student to try nursing (Steinem). What is the difference between these two students that causes the teacher’s change in encouragement? The first student was a boy and the second was a girl. This unequal treatment is what moved many women to campaign for more equitable rights in a male-dominated society. This continuous unfair treatment drove women out of their homes, out of their designated roles in society as wives and mothers, into the streets to rally, march, and campaign for an equal standing between men and women (“Who We Are”).…show more content… She worked as a “journalist and activist in the 1960s-70s to headline a movement that became known as ‘second-wave feminism’” (“Gloria Steinem (1934-)”). She continues to speak out about the unequal rights between men and women even now. On May 6, 1970, Gloria Steinem argued in favor of the equal rights amendment passing during her speech, "All Our Problems Stem from the Same Sex Based Myth.” Her speech was addressed to Congress, along with the rest of the country. In her speech, Steinem argues that societal myths cause women to see themselves as the inferior gender and make the women’s rights movement seem insignificant. She uses anaphora to further dispel the myths that claim equality between men and women and also condescending language to demonstrate the unreasonable nature of these same sex based
