The Woman's March through History:

The Woman has taken a long hard time to make a name for herself amidst a male dominated world. What was it that seemed to put men first? Evolution: men are traditionally the hunters and gatherers of the family. Strength, men are generally physically stronger than women (except Ms. Universe). Men seem to be more aggressive than women, but is that all it takes to put men at the forefront? Throughout history, women have had to fight hard for their rights in society, as everything seems to be against them. How many times have you heard people say: "Stop being such a girl!" or "You cry alll the time man, if we slapped tits on you, you'd be a woman." maybe not the second statement so much but definatly the first. These statements seem to show that being a girl is being weak. Even the word History could be shown as being ' His Story' not 'Her Story'. Women were generally depicted in medieval times as being maids and house workers while the men went out and did the fighting and controlled everything, but this is not entirely true. There were many powerful women during these times. My favorite example is Queen Elizabeth 1 of England. She was a strong, smart, and powerful woman who drove her country to success and survived several assassination attempts. She even protected Britain from a full scale invasion by the Spaniards who thought that they could take advantage of the fact that a woman was their main opponent, they were sorely mistaken. despite her example however, women were viewed as being snakes who brought out the worst in a man. Cleopatra was depicted as being a beautiful but cunning temptress who used her lovers to expand her own power. Once again, the association in medieval times of women with Witchcraft and the Devil was prevalent. But despite all these persecutions, women rose up and are now very successful. But still there are small discriminations. There has never been a female President of the United States. There has never been a female priest. There has never been the female equivalent of Socrates in the history books. There is still sexual harassment in the workplace. Aristotle once said that women were "incomplete men". But women are not an unusual case. The human race has a long history of discrimination and segregation. Take apartheid for instance and slavery. The Protestants fought, and still do fight, against the Catholics who fought against the Jews, who fought against the Germans and the Russians. The Native Americans still battle for their ancient homeland. And in Ireland the North Irish fight against the South Irish. Somewhere in all this is the fight which women have waged for so long. Do women really need to prove that they're better than men? Not really, just as long as they know in their hearts that they shouldnt let certain things get them down because men and women are evenly matched and they need eachother to survive in this world.