This week’s videos and reading made me think of one thing: Time. From 1911 to 2011 there were major changes to make working conditions safer for those in the industrial labor workplace, but not enough to prevent it from happening in the future. Ensuring the safety of laborers is so important, but over time companies and cooperations are still turning a blind eye to the health and safety of people that keep the money flowing. I also noticed this in our reading where time remains an important factor. When the government did not meet the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Ammendment, it put the entire ERA’s work to a full stop. The advocates behind the ERA’s success was built off of the movements from the past leading up until this point. We’ve discussed in past reflections that it takes time and effort to create real change, but when people are unsafe and their lives are in immediate danger, the change needs to happen at a faster pace. The progress of equal rights and the suffrage movement have granted women their place in society “equal” to men- but not really! It is important to keep pushing for change and hope that over time, our voices and presence will enact the change deserved. I think it is important to note how long it takes for change to really occur, and it saddens me to see so much time and effort these groups make in order to let their voices be heard. The government makes it difficult for these groups to feel seen and heard when really equal rights is the base of the American constitution – so why is this more important to US citizens than its own government?