"By the end of the decade, eighty percent to ninety five percent of women said
they suffered from job discrimination and unequal pay"(Faludi 16). Endorsing
equal rights for women means standing behind the Equal Rights Amendment one
hundred percent despite the views of those who feel women are totally free. It is
these type of people who discriminate against women and are responsible for the
statistic, "the average working woman's salary still lags as far behind the
average man's as it did twenty years ago"(Faludi 16). In order for women to
successfully compete with the man, she needs reassurance that her family is being
taken care of.  A measure needs to be taken to call for widely available
maternity leave and child care for women who wish to work. "More than one hundred
nations guarantee maternity leave for all working women, but the United Stated
has no such policy"(Hewlett 134). The policy of comparable pay for comparable
worth in the work place would become a big step in closing the income gap between
men and women.  A large majority of the people in society agree that women should
have equal rights, but one survey found that "seventy percent thought that women
should advance individually, according to their abilities, while only ten percent
thought women should rely on the efforts of women's rights groups"(Bosmajian
210). Feminism has already brought change to the United States, providing
opportunities for women to participate in economic and political systems that did
not exist a century ago.