Women are an important part of our society. Every womanin modern society has her own job or duty in this to do and we can´t forgetthat woman´s life is a lot more complicated than a man´s life. A woman takescare of her own and sometimes her partner’s life and if she is a mom, she wouldalso take care of her children´s life too. In history the equality line hasbeen moved all around the place and we are currently tiptoeing up to the spotof true equality for women. What true equality really is? It’s when men andwomen are getting rewarded for their work, and are being treated the same asone another for the simple fact of them being human not because they are beinglabelled as a man or a woman. Women should not try to pass the line of equalityand even though there are extreme situations of off-balance in society, thereare cases were women are actually at an equal level with men.

Menwho prefer not to get their hands dirty, leaving the less desirable jobs forwomen whom may not be capable of handling such a heavy load are taking manyfemale positions. It is very hard for a parent that is divorced and trying toraise the family and takes on a tiresome job too. Strange as it may seem, the woman’srole have not changed much in today’s society. Women still have limitedopportunities in the business world and their role in the family as ahousekeeper is unchanged. Moreover, being a woman, I have learned the act ofmultitasking and handing many issues at a time as a result of facing challengesof the society. However, society still thinks of women as housewives and men asheads of the family.

I will focus on many problems that women face in thesociety. Being an Indian woman I could understand that it is not easy tofulfill your goals. It is especially challenging when a person comes from aconservative family, because the society limits a woman’s ability byclassifying them as housewives. For instance, I wanted to go to California andattend the California University. But I couldn’t go because my parents weremore concern about what might Indian society think about this idea. Moreover,they were then concern that I could get hurt and my personality might change.

However, I feel that they just have a mindset that an Indian woman has tofollow their tradition culture and act the way society want them to. Therefore,they did not allow me to go California for my education. Men who have achievedgreat importance in industry, government, sports, and the media have become awell-known sight.

However, women are still not encourage or admitted so easilyin these field. Women are still overpowered by men and have fewer opportunitiesin many fields. I think that we should not be a category because the role ofwomen in society should be equal to a man’s role. Even though it will be reallyhard to reach complete equality between men and women I still believe that weshould try.  Men will sometimes get paidmore than women; but this is nothing to complain about if the man works butalso I believe that a woman should get paid just as much as that man for doingthe same work. This means that men and women should receive equal treatment notwomen getting away with stuff easier than men and not men getting more respect.

Overall,the rights and status of women have improved considerably in the last century however;gender equality has recently been threatened within the last decade. Blatantlysexist laws and practices are slowly being eliminated while social perceptionsof “women’s roles” continue to stagnate and even degrade back totraditional ideals. It is these social perceptions that challenge the evolutionof women as equal on all levels. Subtle and blatant sexism continues to existthroughout educational, economic, professional and legal arenas. Women whocarefully follow their expected roles may never recognize sexism as anoppressive force in their life. Today’s society expects women to fulfillcertain roles. Those roles completely disregarded the needs of education andmotivated business and scientific women.

.Twenty four years ago the SupremeCourt decided whether women should have a right to an abortion. This decisionwas made in favor of women rights mostly because the court made a progressivedecision to consider the woman as a human who may be motivated by other thingsin life rather than just being a mother. The culture in America is saturated bythe media. The media is very harmful to women because it gives negative viewsof women and reinforces them on a daily basis.

The role women play in today’ssociety is a drastic change from the role they use to play in the past. Womenused to be confined to the superiority of the man. Mentally, emotionally andphysically abused, silenced, embarrassed, and belittled. These are just a fewexamples of the emotion from the isolated treatment of the past.

A woman’s rolein today’s society is more valued than ever before.