According to the article “Employment and Unemployment Levels,” some shop owners still refuse to hire the people they once saw as slaves. Though the African Americans have freedom, there is still a long way to go before all will see them as equals. If one ponders it long enough, the same could be said about women. “For most of human history, a woman's status was little more than that of minor subject, servant, or slave . . .” This is a quote from the article, “Women’s Rights”. It states that in the eyes of men, a women’s value was little more than an object. Perhaps this is why, in order to fight a war, a woman was forced to hide her identity. In today’s society, though, women don’t have to hide. “Women’s History” says that every woman was granted the right to own property by the 1900s. Women were also fighting for the right to vote, and by the late 1800s and 1900s, they had achieved their goal. These women fought to have the same rights as men, and it paid off. We are now seen as