Because women in American culture have taken a stand and united, they have rights they otherwise would not have had, closing the gender gap more and more with each generation. I, as a female, have many more opportunities and a lot more protection than my mother did, because of the changing views and treatment of women. I took the opportunity to play sports. My high school offered girls teams for every sport played by the boys, with the exception of football. The ASB President during my senior year in high school wore skirts to school, and we called her Maureen.
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All this came about because women joined together and decided to stop suffering silently. The recurring theme that really resonated with me in her essay was that of gender inequality and its acceptance in Chinese culture. I believe that the essay illustrates the importance of a support system and speaking out among women in a society. In the Chinese culture described in the essay, women were treated completely unfairly, by both men and women. I did not understand how the women themselves could have accepted the treatment and then acted accordingly.