“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others”--Amelia Earhart. The concept of women’s rights has not always been how it is today. In the 1930s, times were undoubtedly different, but things were especially different for females. Amelia Earhart, however, worked endlessly to change this epidemic; she disagreed with society and the thought of women being lesser and not being capable of the doing the same things that men could do. By being a woman’s rights activist, Earhart was able to demonstrate that women could set world records, fly across oceans, and pave new paths that had not even been imagined by men yet. Because of Earhart’s rebellious actions to change social normalities,
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Women has always been viewed as lesser individuals compared to what men were capable of. Jobs for females differentiated greatly from those of men; women were supposed to stay home and care for the children as well as the house. A female also wasn’t typically educated or educated as well as a male. Not only did Earhart not picture herself doing these everyday tasks, she also knew she was capable of much more. She wanted to learn and explore the world. This is where her love for aviation began. She watched as men performed airshows and flight attempts and wanted to execute these herself. When asked about Earhart compares to other women of her community a historian on Amelia Earhart states,“Popular belief of the 1920s and 1930s held that flying was not a ladylike activity and that women who took part in it must be somehow abnormal. Amelia tried to combat such stereotypes by stressing the variety of women involved in aviation” (Name). Earhart had different ideas for her life however; she states that, "It has always seemed to me, that boys and girls are educated very differently ... too often little attention is paid to individual talent. Instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes" (Earhart). Women were not supposed to do the same everyday activities but surpassed these standards and became one of the world’s most famous
Women has always been viewed as lesser individuals compared to what men were capable of. Jobs for females differentiated greatly from those of men; women were supposed to stay home and care for the children as well as the house. A female also wasn’t typically educated or educated as well as a male. Not only did Earhart not picture herself doing these everyday tasks, she also knew she was capable of much more. She wanted to learn and explore the world. This is where her love for aviation began. She watched as men performed airshows and flight attempts and wanted to execute these herself. When asked about Earhart compares to other women of her community a historian on Amelia Earhart states,“Popular belief of the 1920s and 1930s held that flying was not a ladylike activity and that women who took part in it must be somehow abnormal. Amelia tried to combat such stereotypes by stressing the variety of women involved in aviation” (Name). Earhart had different ideas for her life however; she states that, "It has always seemed to me, that boys and girls are educated very differently ... too often little attention is paid to individual talent. Instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes" (Earhart). Women were not supposed to do the same everyday activities but surpassed these standards and became one of the world’s most famous