Dec 16, 2009

A Doll’s House | Compare and Contrast

1879: Congress gives women the right to practice law before the United States Supreme Court.
Today: Women attorneys are as common as men in all areas of the law. Acceptance for women in the upper echelons of corporate law proved to be a bigger hurdle than practicing before the Supreme Court. Despite all of the advances made in the area of gender equality, women still earn less than seventy cents for every dollar earned by men.
1879: Edison announces the success of his incandescent light bulb, certain that it...