Women’s Gender Role Throughout history, women have been labeled as inferior to men. But as years go by, women have been trying to climb up the ladder to equalize themselves with men. Women have accomplished a lot, but there is still more that needs to be done. In order to better understand women’s strive for equality, it is necessary to examine the past history of women, women’s present status, and what is still being done to change the discrimination of women. In the past, women were traditionally supposed to stay at home while their husbands went to work. Once it was considered ok for women to go into the workforce, they were su