What More ‘Equality’ Do Women Want?

By now everyone knows of the Women’s Marches that took place across the United States on January 21, which drew large crowds of liberal women who came to lament the inequalities that women face in the United States in the 21st century.

There is only one problem with that: women in the United States have all the same rights as men. I recently encountered an article that has been making the rounds on the internet titled “You Are Not Equal. I’m Sorry,” which insinuates that women who don’t call themselves feminists are ungrateful to women who have made actual significant contributions to society, such as Susan B. Anthony and Eleanor Roosevelt. This completely disregards the fact that these women fought for legitimate equality and rights that were supposed to be protected by the Constitution. Since those early feminist pioneers who helped ensure equal rights for women, bringing American women to the peak of feminist progress, the movement has flown off the edge into regressive third wave feminism.