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In 2025, there will be many areas, professions, or important roles where women make society better every day. But is this being captured, recognized, and taught as it rightfully should be?

One could ask why the inequities, marginalization, disrespect, disregard continue for women, not only in America but in many countries.

In their work for centuries and across generations, women make society better every day despite the misunderstandings, resistance, and obstructions they have faced and endured, and continue to do so, in their quest for equality.

Too often such resistance and obstruction have been based upon the misguided notion that women want to be men.

Women do not want to be men. What they want, have fought for, and continue to fight for are: equal access to an education, equal pay for doing the same job, equal respect and freedom from sexual harassment and sexual abuse in the home and the workplace.

Fifty years ago, women, through the Women’s Liberation Movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, were fighting to gain equal access and equal opportunity in the workplace. They wanted to be recognized for their abilities to be more than sex objects, housewives and mothers.  Despite these challenges, women make society better every day.

Women Make Society Better Every Day
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While gains have been made in women having access to more job opportunities and breaking out of many stereotypical roles in the workplace, they still have a long way to go when it comes to receiving equal pay, promotion to senior/CEO level positions, and corporate board representation.

During the fight to gain equality and respect for their abilities, many times women have had to project attributes—from dressing to speech—to prove they are just as smart, just as capable as men. Women do not want to be men. They want to be themselves and not be penalized or degraded for it.

As women make society better every day in so many ways, they can work together with men with mutual respect and share in the benefits of equal treatment across the board without losing identity that is uniquely theirs.

So, what will be some take-aways as we celebrate another Women’s History month?

It should inspire a change in perception and behavior as you interact with the girls and women in your life—at home, in the workplace, in your daily encounters. Is it too much to acknowledge that women make society better every day?

One month is not enough.

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