Javier Quiroz-Estrada4/21/2014History 174Pink ThinkThroughout history, women have faced inequality and discrimination within a patriarchal society , such as the right to vote in presidential elections, ownership of property and access to employment opportunities. Over the past century, many achievements have guaranteed women's rights and equality. For example, the Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Act prohibited employers from discriminating against sex in 1988.1 In her essay “Pink Think,” Lynn Peril talks about the pressure placed on women to follow the rules of voting rights. femininity.2 She describes the word "Pink Think" as ideas and attitudes of appropriate behavior of women.2 Although some aspects of "Pink Think" culture are still recognized today, changes in cultural and political events Recent centuries have increased attention to women's issues against social injustice. Nonetheless, Peril overlooks the fact that women today live in an entirely different era than she imagines due to new cultural attitudes about gender roles and identity, work and dream life. American. There has been a significant change in this area. generation in terms of gender roles and identity. In her book, Peril examines advertisements and propaganda from the 1940s to the 1970s, when gender roles apparently influenced stereotypes and societal pressure on American women. In one of her examples, Betsy Martin McKinney told her Ladies' Home Journal readers that the sexual role of women is to have sexual intercourse and supplement it with pregnancy and childbirth and that to deny it would be to denying one's femininity.2 It is not right to take a person's word and say it in the middle of a sheet of paper...... example, the sitcom Who's the Boss? it's about a single mother who lives in a nice neighborhood with a nanny who takes care of her children. This show also tells the audience how it happens in reality. The American dream is not limited to housewives. Although Peril's method of presenting women's history through social media and pop culture, it is overlooked. She overlooks the fact that women today live in an entirely different time due to the shift in gender roles and identity, work, and the American dream. Her argument lacks strong arguments because the images are false in the way she describes them. Ignoring an entire topic about women shows a lack of critical thinking and weakens his argument. By strengthening her argument, Peril can also recognize other women and their fight for women's rights..