National Women's History Month

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Written by: Caroline O'Connor

Women’s history month has come to a close for the year of 2018. While, as a woman, I agree that we should have women marches. There is still blatant sex discrimination in the workplace and everyday social life. As a conservative woman, I do not agree with the way that women present themselves at marches.

When I think back to women like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Blackwell, Rosa Parks, and other influential women would think about women wearing a reproductive part on their heads. Either as a hat or around their head. Anthony and Blackwell persevered throughout history for their class and strength. They did not need act or look reckless to make a point or stand out, they stood out and made history by standing up for what they believed and did it with integrity. Rosa Park’s move was not obscene, it was simple. Park’s one simple act was one of the biggest acts of the civil rights act that is still talked about and admired today. The integrity, intelligence, and passion that these women had made history, not the obscene things that they were wearing that distracted others from the cause at hand.

I admire women’s marches and personally love them. We have inspirational women such as Melania Trump, who is a woman that is not only the First Lady to #45 but is also one who knows multiple languages, served as a Goodwill Ambassador, and a devout Catholic. Melania is also the first naturalized US Citizen and the only First Lady to be born in a communist country. Nancy Regan is the one to thank with the “just say no” to drugs campaign but is also one who contributed greatly to Breast Cancer treatment and research, since she was also a Breast Cancer survivor.

Women deserve to have equal opportunity as men and that is one of many sides to these marches. I do believe that women will be taken more seriously when we can uphold the same classy, integrity-filled values as our past inspirational women who have made wonderful marks in history.

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