In the United States, feminism is a rapidly growing movement to promote the need for women's equality. In the 1920s the women's suffrage movement took the country by storm to demand that women be afforded the same rights as men. Initially this all started to give women equal opportunities to vote, even though today women can vote, their rights are still denied. Almost 100 years have passed and in the United States women still do not have the same rights as men. People who support equal gender rights are feminists. Feminist simply means someone who believes that women have the same rights as men, believing that the United States was founded on equality; “We hold this truth to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal” (560). Feminists can be male or female. A feminist does not believe that women are superior to men. A negative stereotype of the feminist in that she hates men because she scares people away from the cause. People don't like to be labelled, especially if it's not a good label and unfortunately because of some extremist feminist people they turn away from the cause. Women continue to receive unequal pay for the same work done by a man. It's easy for men to avoid the feminist movement because it doesn't work in their favor. It may also be harder for them to see that women are treated differently because they are not women, so they have not been able to personally experience the