Women's Equality on the Constitution

Introduction

The fundamental law of the United States, the U.S. Constitution exists as a social contract between the people of the United States and its government and holds sacrosanct the idea that legitimate government must be derived from the consent of the governed. The U.S. Constitution has greatly influenced the spread of democracy throughout the world and has set forth a series of values that have formed the fundamental tenets of U.S. society, including the idea that government and each individual will abide by certain rules in order to maximize freedom and security, inures to the benefit of society. The Constitution also provides the framework for U.S. government and to foster a system of checks and balances to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful (Peters and Andrea, pp. 58-96). This paper in connection to the constitution will investigate the extent to which women are provision equality in the constitution of United States.

Discussion and Analysis

The American state exemplifies the way democracies act like individuals because democracies by definition affirm the view of individuals as equal to one another when it comes to the government's distribution of privileges, benefits, or protections. For this reason, perhaps, the United States tops the list of the world's democracies in measures of women's equality in such areas as higher education, the professions, and business. Though by no means are women's accomplishments in these areas equal to men's in the United States, what is significant is that the percentage of women in America that excel in traditionally male fields of higher education, the professions, or business is the same or greater than in comparable democracies, such as Canada, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom. The more equal participation of women in these nontraditional fields can be said to be the result of public ...