Throughout American history, women have undoubtedly been considered the second sex. Historically, patriarchy has paved the role of women in the government as well as society and although laws were ratified in order to eliminate inequality among men and women, political elites have often backtracked the progress. Recently, the president of the United States Donald Trump took aim at planned parenthood funding. Donald Trump is one of the most powerful men on Earth has openly bragged about sexual assault and has shamelessly referred to a woman’s vulva as a woman’s ‘wherever’. Moreover, President Donald Trump threatened to shut down planned parenthood unless it discontinued giving women the opportunity to have an abortion. This action is unlawful…show more content… New Jersey’s Constitution of 1776 enlisted on how not only men who met the property requirement could vote but women as well. However, soon after this right was stripped away due to a woman's “nature” (bodily autonomy) which disqualified them from voting and actively giving their consent to government. Time and time again women have been forced to accept their voting rights, right to run for office and health to be negatively affected due to past actions from the government. Gender discrimination was prevalent in America’s history and it is still allowed to coexist in the government by political elites and voters…show more content… More than 90 percent of adult white men possessed the right to vote. Whereas President Adams deemed it correct and necessary to limit women from the right to vote and instead expanded that of white men. Only men could vote because their purpose or “nature” is drastically different from that of women or so it's claimed to be. Revoking the right to vote for women established a principle that minorities or groups of people could be now excluded. New Jersey’s legislators determined the change as merely a restatement of the true sense and meaning of the constitution. Women have dealt with gender discrimination under a patriarchal government. The expansion of men’s voting right underlined the fact that a poor white man had more power and had a vote that was more valuable than that of a wealthy woman or that of a woman in general. This change in law became a significant part in the history of gender and American politics because the definition of an American voter was altered as white and male leading to the rise of American democracy. In ten short years, it had become unimaginable to New Jersey‘s legislators that their predecessors had ever intended to enfranchise any women, or any blacks or aliens, either. And so the perimeters of the Republic were pulled in, and New Jersey‘s brief experiment in an inclusive franchise was redefined as bad interpretation, and a piece of its history reimagined as nothing more than a bad
