Huffington Post reporter Laura Bassett explains that in today's society, women are paid 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, meaning that women earn an average of $37,800 per year, compared to men who earned an average of $49,400 per year in 2012 (women still earned 77 cents on the men's dollar in 2012: report). Also, when a man and a woman apply for the same job, the man will almost always be chosen. This resulted in an increase of one million men working full time in the space of a year, while the number of women working full time remained almost the same. To this day, women are not treated the same as men, even though nearly a century has passed since 1920, when women gained the voting and other rights they deserved of equivalent importance. Men and women are standing up to raise awareness of the meager changes made to women's rights over the years. One way to raise awareness is to write a book, and many books have been done about the lack of equality rights for women. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the main character Lily witnesses several equality rights between men and women in the way women are treated by men, which has become a problem major social issue in today’s society. a deep history in America, but women began to stand up for themselves and started the women's rights movement about 165 years ago. According to the Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1920 article, "The first women's rights rally in the United States took place on July 19 and 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York" (The Women's Rights Movement, 1848- 1920). ). The main leader of this rally was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist and mother of four. Additionally, the expectations of a woman are to stay home and be a good wife and not do things associated with what is expected of a man. It is for all these reasons and many more that women's rights have become a social issue in today's world. Works Cited Bassett, Laura. "Women still earned 77 cents on the men's dollar in 2012: report." The HuffingtonPost. TheHuffingtonPost.com, September 17, 2013. Web. May 13, 2014. Kidd, Sue Monk. The secret life of bees. New York, NY: Penguin, 2003. “Last Night’s Debate” in print. The official website of author and activist Gloria Steinem. Np, ndWeb. May 13, 2014. Wollstonecraft, Mary. A demand for women's rights. with restrictions on political and moral subjects. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1792. Printed "The Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1920." History, art and artifacts. Np, and Web. May 122014.