From professional sports to children's toys, women are portrayed as the weaker sex. The media and pop culture has allowed this to happen. Women are shown as dumb, beautiful, and totally dependent. Although women are shown like this, most women in the real world are intelligent, nice, independent, and not as beautiful as a supermodel. Women have fought long and hard to get rid of the demeaning connotations that go along with being female; yet, …showed first 75 words of 1159 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1159 total…over time, they are still the lesser sex and will always be shown as weaker than men. Only through changes in society will being a woman be a wonderful and empowering thing. If a woman President was elected, professional female athletes were paid more, and Barbie got a breast reduction surgery and a career, America would be on the right track for girls to grow up knowing they are as strong and intelligent as boys.