This week’s reading and videos highlighted the injustices in our society and how inequality is a struggle that has been around for decades and still has not been resolved. Equality can be difficult to define and can look different to different people. However, this week’s reading represents the resistance to any effort toward equality. This is proven by the Equal Rights Amendment being approved in recent years after being originally proposed decades ago and failing/being denied many times in the past. The idea of equality of rights for all under law was denied! We have an allusion of social/political progress, like women gaining the right to vote and abolishing segregation, without realizing opression being maintained in the legal system. The ERA wouldn’t allow for underhand opression in government which is why there was so much push-back on approving it. The same goes for the labor issues discussed in this week’s videos. The government befitted from inhumane labor, it was low cost and they didn’t care for the rights of workers. Passing labor laws and worker’s rights wouldn’t allow for the higherups to continue to gain from mistreating workers. Both the reading and videos gave me the impression that government corruption is an underlying issue in many issues regarding inequality and human rights. The Equal Rights Amendment is a step closer to equality. But will it be enough? Using labor laws as an example: while labor laws improved worker’s rights and working conditions, sweat shops and other inhumane labor still exists and continues to be an issue. Circling back to the question, what is equality and justice and is it achievable?