The 1980's was a huge decade for Women in America. Starting off in 1980 being the first year that a higher percentage of women than men had voted in the Presidential election (a higher percentage of women than men have voted in every Presidential election since). This decade also saw the first woman to be nominated for Vice President (Geraldine Ferraro) and also the first American women to walk in space (Katherine Sullivan).

There is no better example of how American Women have progressed and flourished than Oprah Winfrey. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was once the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world. Oprah is a testament that you can make something out of yourself even coming from the harshest backgrounds, being a women and at that an African American women. This should be proof enough to the women of America that you can accomplish whatever you want in American society.

Women are now capable of competing with men in every area of the work place, the only area in which men and women do not compete directly is in sport which may one day change but I dont see that as an area of much issue compared to that of working.

There have always been jobs in which women can use there sexuality to earn money from men as prostitution is one of the worlds oldest professions, not to say that I agree with it. The point Im trying to make is that from the 80's to the present day, women have been able to do jobs which may be deemed as degrading to women such as stripping, working at hooters (left) etc but in a sense they are using what they have been given to earn money. A few women take these kinds of jobs to help aid there education or because if they don't have any qualifications and are pretty then they can use those looks in this area, the same can't be said I believe for men.

Although many women feel that this is a degrading thing for women to do and that they shouldn't have to do a job to please men...it's hard to put across because I am a man but I feel more power to women who can take advantage of these guys and make money the ones who end up looking silly aren't the women but the men.