Cherchez la femme

Today in Burlington, Vermont a Jodie Ross finally settled a three year legal battle over gender discrimination within the IBM company. As of 2004, Jodie Ross has been an IBM employee for twenty-three years, over seeing a depart of a $300 million inventory. Jodie was suddenly fired by her supervisors after an alleged misconduct at an audit. Yet, her male co-workers although acting in the same conduct, did not recieve termination.
At the turn of the century Susan B. Anthony was the women's civil rights leader who lived from 1820-1906 and put herself into the history books by being tried in a court of law for attempting to cast a vote in the 1872 presidential election. Soon after Susan B. Anthony she was followed by women like Ida B. Wells an african american suffragette, Elizabeth Cady Stanton who would go on to found the International Council of Women and Arlene Horowitz drafter to the Women's Education Equality act. All of these american Women pushed for the same basic values the Right to Vote, the Right to Fair Wages, the Right to Hold Public Office and a right to a Higher Education. With all of the hard work put forth by these women they were able to achieve such accomplishments like the Women's Education Equality Act, The Equal Pay Act and the Fair Labor Standard Act. With those achievements the need for femenism died out in the mid 1980's
Yet now with Jodie Ross of IBM, it should annouce to women that although equality is almost near, some work must still be done to make things fair.