We live in a world where race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and gender all play a huge role in how we act and treat others. For the longest time, rich, white republican men made up the voice of our society. Women have come a long way when it comes to equal rights for gender equality, but men still have a power over us. Women are still facing discrimination and violence due to their gender. This is something women are always fighting and working hard to get rid of but will gender equality ever actually be present? Will women ever be put on the same playing field as men without hesitation?

Let's bring this to the present day. It's the 21st Century and we still have yet to see a woman president. What are the odds out of 45 presidents, they're all men? Why is this? Women are capable of being CEOs, running successful businesses, leading universities, even working for the president or leading other countries around the globe. Is it because we have created a social norm that America is run by a man?

How about women's rights. We had to get the right to vote. The right to live free of violence, slavery, and discrimination. We had to get the right to own property, to earn a fair and equal pay wage and many more. You don't see men fighting for these same things. We even have a women's rights movement because we are still having to fight for these rights to be equal to that of males. The same males that couldn't pass an Equal Rights Amendment through our own congress.

Now let's look at some examples in the present time. Women make up about 51 percent of the population, but yet only 19 percent of the U.S. Congress is made up of women. Women pay more for common items like shampoo, deodorant, etc. and don't even get me started on tampons. Women earn 79 cents to a man's dollar and that's if you're a white woman. It gets progressively worse depending on your race. One in six women will be the victim of rape or attempted rape and the list goes on and on.

Speaking of sexual assault, here's a perfect example. I'm sure by now everyone has heard of the Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford case and if you haven't then you're living under a rock. It is sad that a woman comes out saying she was sexually assaulted by a man and multiple people don't believe her, they look the other way or they want more people to come forward making the same claim. People have found pictures of Ford from when she was in high school around the time the assault happened and because of her looks, they say there's no way he would've touched "that". It is wrong that because of her gender, her looks, and the way she is observed by others, she gets ignored and this man might still end up making decisions for our country.

Another example, Serena Williams in the U.S. Open Final this year. We watch men throw their helmets, slam water bottles, yell at the ref for a bad call or get in their coaches faces. When Serena Williams did this, it was unacceptable to the male ref in the chair above her. She was given three violations that cost her the game that she would've won for breaking her racket and calling the ref a thief for stealing her points. Williams says that men have done much worse things on that court, but because she's a woman and of color, she's getting punished for it. It is sad that she has to yell at a national event just to get her point across. On top of that, her actions will alter her athletic career forever.

It is 2018, how many protests does there have to be? How many amazing achievements do women have to make in order to be considered equal? How many more women have to be sexually assaulted? What is it going to take for us women to get noticed? It's not the 1900s anymore, women should not still be under the attack of white males. In the end, we all breath the same, we all bleed the same and we all die the same. We're all people, let's treat each other like so.