Compare and contrast

Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem were the voices of their time . In 1920 , World War One had come to an end . An entire generation of men was killed , and women were constantly giving birth or lactating . Sanger stipulated that women can only be free when they can liberate themselves from motherhood , and only become pregnant by choice . Gloria Steinem 's generation was embroiled in another war in Viet Nam , and the women left behind could barely support themselves because of discriminatory employment practices in corporate America . As it turns out , the only

difference between 1920 and 1970 was one of degree as women were still treated as second-class citizens in the latter part of the twentieth century

In Woman and the New Race ' Margaret Sanger addressed the problem of involuntary motherhood . Written in the wake of World War 1 , Sanger stated that women were simply creating the soldiers of destruction for the next generation : prostitutes , thieves , and murderers , unwanted and antisocial - destroying the world that gave rise to them . While unknowingly laying the foundations of tyrannies and providing the human tinder for racial conflagrations , woman was also unknowingly creating slums , filling asylums with insane , and institutions with other defectives . She was replenishing the ranks of the prostitutes furnishing grist for the criminal courts and inmates for prisons . Had she planned deliberately to achieve this tragic misery , she could hardly have done it more effectively (Sanger . At the time , there were no social provisions for poor women with numerous children . They had to throw themselves at the mercy of the community the church , or more wealthy family members , and they would often meet with derision or ostracism , especially if the children were borne out of wedlock . As one can imagine , supporting several children on a severely limited income is a difficult to impossible situation . Some women had begun to exercise their reproductive rights by committing infanticide or getting abortions . In a time when American society viewed women as little more than brood mares , Sanger believed that the power of deciding when and with whom to reproduce should be a basic human right . Rights in the political and corporate arena were secondary priorities

By the 1960s , women no longer had to resort to abortion and infanticide to practice birth control as the Pill became available . Yet , there were (and are ) still gross inequities in how women are treated in society at large . Gloria Steinem was a famous feminist leader during this time She did not advocate the independence of women from men as much as she emphasized the need for equality between the sexes . Women and men must both be free to pursue the rights promised to them in the Declaration of Independence in to truly progress forward in society . She advocates a social revolution as radical as America 's War for Independence , it is a very peaceful one . The challenge to all of us is to live a revolution , not to die for one . There has been too much killing...