Chapter 21: The Progressive Era

          It was a little bit alarming to read how in the 1903, how young girls are being kidnapped a carried across states to become prostitute. I thought kidnapping girls and making them prostitutes only happened in today’s decade. It was a big controversies about girls traveling in different countries and getting kidnapped and then being sold as prostitutes in other countries worldwide. They we able to be sold through the internet. It was very sad to read that was already happening in the 1900’s and that America was probably the first country to start this crime. In today and in this chapter women were mostly prostitutes, and it was rare and even rarer today to see or hear about a male prostitute unless that male is a transgender. Anyways, I get this idea that women were more likely to become prostitute over men due to women always being acknowledged as the man’s servant. Throughout history it was always recognized women standing beside her husband serving him instead of following her dreams, women always had to support their husband’s dreams. Although women were never acknowledged to be known as slaves because they were expected to fill this role as a wife. In all reality women were slaves during this time. Just like African- American slaves they did not have any rights or equality, and the white men created a degrading life for women and African-Americans. As defined by the dictionary a slave is a person who is legal property of someone and is forced to obey them. Women are legal property to their husbands through marriage and a marriage certificated to prove that also as a wife she must obey her husband’s order for her; this sounds a lot like a slavery to me. African-Americans were not the only slaves in America but as well as wives and prostitutes.

            A website that I highly encourage to everyone is http://www.heforshe.org/ not only in the 1900’s women were fighting for inequality. Today women are still continuing this fight. This website allows men to get involved with women inequality as well as human inequality. It is a very informative page against this fight against inequality; it shows how many men around the world have decided to stand up against inequality.