It’s a Man’s World
Emily Buchtman From the Town of McDermott
Throughout the history of America, women have received the short-end of the stick. It wasn’t until 1920 that women were given the right to vote. Previous to 1920, the world wasn’t what it is today. Women were the center of the household; tending to children, doing the cooking and dishes, unable to hold their own, and having to dress in a specific manner. When the Women’s Movement first began things started off slow, but eventually grew into the feminism we have today. In 1919, the American Legion Auxiliary was founded. This organization is the world’s largest women’s patriotic service organization. It has allowed women to vote before they gained the official right to vote in State elections.
The list below are positions in government that have never been held by women:
- President
- Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
- Secretary of the Army
- Vice-President
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
- Director of the CIA
- Director of the NSA
- Director of FBI
- Director of National Intelligence
- White House Chief of Staff
- Any Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs
- Secretary of Treasury
- Secretary of Defense
- Deputy Secretary of State
- Secretary of Veterans Affair
- NASA Administrator
- Librarian of Congress
- Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
- Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
It is often a viewpoint that men are “tougher” or “stronger” than women. However, at Girl’s State we find that untrue. White males were handed their rights and leadership as women everywhere had to fight just to vote or wear the clothing of their choice. Society constantly looks down at women as they are viewed inferior. Just because males have testosterone that give them muscle mass, we judge their strength and superiority on something women can’t even develop. Instead, we need to change as a society to associate strength with mind. It just so happens that women's brains fully develop by the age of 21. For men it is the age of 25. Women should be known as the strong, independent and capable of doing what men can do to show how far we’ve come. These positions are an opening of what someone can state, “I was the first to hold this position” and start creating more and more opportunities for the strong, capable women that are in this world.
Here at Girl’s State we are training to become future officials of the world. People shouldn’t be ashamed to have a female president or a female vice president; it’s time for the first female president. It’s the time for women to step into what their passion is without being ranked below men. It’s time to change societal views and norms as women are equal, they should be able to hold leadership positions in the government.
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