Laura Bassett, journalist for the Huffington Post, explains that in today's society women are paid 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, resulting in women being paid an average of 37,800 dollars per year compared to men who in 2012 are paid an average of $49,400 per year (Women still earned 77 cents on the dollar of men in 2012: Report). Furthermore, when a man and a woman apply for the same job, the man will almost always be chosen. This resulted in an increase in the number of men working full-time by 1 million in one 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 almost a century has passed since 1920, when women obtained the well-deserved right of suffrage and other rights of equivalent importance. Both men and women are taking action to spread awareness about the little changes made to women's rights over the years. One way to raise awareness is to write a book, and many have been made about the lack of equal rights for women. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the protagonist Lily witnesses several equality rights between men and women in the way women are treated by men, which has become a major social issue in today's society. Women's equality rights are now consolidated. a deep history in America, but women started standing up for themselves and started the women's rights movement about 165 years ago. According to the article The Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1920, "The first meeting devoted to women's rights in the United States was held July 19-20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York" (The Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1920) . The main leader of this meeting was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a feminist and mother of four paper promotions. Additionally, the expectations for a woman are to stay at 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 men's dollar in 2012: report.” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, September 17, 2013. Web. May 13, 2014. Kidd, Sue Monk. The secret life of bees. New York, NY: Penguin, 2003. Print."Last Night's Debate." The official website of author and activist Gloria Steinem. Np, ndWeb. May 13, 2014.Wollstonecraft, Maria. A vindication of women's rights. with restrictions on political and moral topics. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1792. Print. "The Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1920." History, art and artefacts. Np, nd Web. May 122014.