text: Cars, telephones, and nuclear energy are just three examples of inventions and discoveries that have had profound effects on modern day life.  We must remember, however, that the field of technology is not the only one in which significant advances have been made in the 0th century.  Another "discovery" of this past century has been feminism, which has had a significant impact on the lives of both men and women.
  	Of course, the issue of feminism is not a new one, but it is just within the past century that much progress has been made towards the equality of women (with the important exception of women winning the right to vote in the 1800s).  As recently as the 1950s, it was still the most typical as well as the ideal to have the woman in the home, housekeeping and tending the children.   The first significant equal rights movement in the U.S. was in the 70s with the Equal Rights Amendment, which failed.  Even today, the woman is still only earning something like 60 cents for every dollar that a man earns.
  	Feminism does not only have to do with work and money, but also with the image of women.  It's only recently that we've "discovered", or begun to think about rather, how much things as varying as pornography or the language we use helps to form the image of women.  A recognition of such influences on the image of women is the first step in breaking it down, so that women are seen for who they truly are.
  	Feminism is better described as a "discovery in progress"; it's a movement, an attitude that has not yet become mainstream.  Only when women have achieved equality with men, will there cease to be a need for feminism, and the discovery will have been completed.
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