Challenger April

For most common reasons, everyone always says the head of the house is always the father. And yet, often the sternest, most domineering figure of the home is the mother. Although there are holidays directed to both parents, hardly anyone seems to remember June twentieth. Why it is that Mother’s Day is remembered and more cherished? Don’t fathers work equally as mothers? Well, it doesn’t matter, because that can be discussed later. It’s May, and time to talk about that dear woman we call mother. After all, if momma ain’t happy, nobody happy.

Throughout history until about the early 1920’s, women were almost always browbeaten and subjected to harsh treatment. As the world industrialized, women were not only paid less for the same amount of work that a man would do, but they were also sometimes forced to live in cramped and dirty boarding houses. This was a ‘precaution’ so men wouldn’t be able to take advantage of them and so they could be ‘safe’. Even today, despite the fact that woman are standing on their own, some people still discriminate on them.

However, today most places of the free world have thrown out the trite platitude of women being barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen. Many recent studies have shown that in the world of success, women are pulling ahead. A few years ago, a study showed that in the field of medicine, there were more women then man, for the first time ever.
Though this piece may sound condescending toward men, it’s not. Men, for the most part, aren't looked down on. We know the struggles women went through in order to earn their place, a place that should have been given willingly. Yet, there are still places in the world that see women as nothing more then a second class citizen. In the future, let’s hope that these women who are still oppressed can find their freedom and rise up.