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Abstract This paper describes the women’s status in the USA from three points: 1.women’s rights in Education; 2.women’s rights in Politics; and 3.women in economic field. And it discusses why American women can improve their status. There are two main reasons: one is the exterior cause (such as capitalist productive force, bourgeois ideology; the efforts of the government and non-government organizations; the guide from some literary work), and another is the interior cause (women’s self-awareness; women’s emancipation movement and help from education). On the contrary, women in other countries are in unfavorable conditions. This paper discusses why they fall behind and how to change this condition. 摘要本篇论文主要从三个方面描述了美国妇女的地位:1.妇女在教育上的权利;2.妇女在政治上的权利;3.妇女在经济领域的成就。本文讨论了美国妇女能够提高她们的社会地位的主要原因。第一是外部原因,例如资本主义生产力的大发展,资本主义思想的传播;政府和非官方组织的努力，以及文学作品的指引。第二是其自身的原因，如自我意识的觉醒，妇女解放运动的影响和教育的作用。相反，其他大多数国家妇女的地位却是很低的。本文旨在讨论为什么她们的地位提高不明显，以及要解决这个问题，应该采取何种措施。 Introduction Since 1975, the first Women’s Conference was convoked in Mexico City with the help of UN, the advocates of “Gender Equality” and “improving women’s status” have appeared. Now, many years have passed, but the progress is not so remarkable: in Asia, many girls are not allowed to receive education, female babies are killed or abandoned; and in Africa, women are considered as a part of belongings. Their value lies in giving birth to children and taking care of the family. On the contrary, great progress has been made in improving women’s status in the United States. The writer tries to find out the reasons for the progress, so that people can understand what shall be done to achieve similar success in other countries. Ⅰ. US Women’s Status Today In history, there was a long time when woman was legally treated as subsidiary of man. During all her life, man was her owner or manager. A woman should obey what her man or her father said and serve the man’s need. There was no need to have education, for knowledge was a sign of status. For this reason, women had no right in politics and no one would hire a person lacking in skills and knowledge. However, conditions have changed. A. Education In the past, women received little schooling because their lives went around home. Yet, the situation has changed. By 1980, women earned a majority of all associate and bachelor degrees, and in 1998, the proportion was 56% (U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, 2001) College doors have opened to women, and differences between men’s and women’s majors are becoming smaller. In 1970, women just earned 17% of bachelor degrees in the natural sciences, computer science, and engineering; by 1998, that proportion had increased to 31%. For all areas of study in 1998, women eared 57% of master’s degrees and 42% of doctorates (including 56% of all Ph.D.s in sociology). Women have also broken into many fields that used to be occupied by almost all males. For example, in 1970 only a few hundred women received a master’s degree of business administration, compared to more than 39,000 in 1998 (US National Center for Education Statistics, 2001). Nonetheless, the proportion of women in all these professions is rising steadily. For example, the American Bar Association reports that law school class of 2004 across the US is about evenly spit between women and men. (Gest, 2001) B. Politics Once the Supreme Court decided, in Minor V. Happersett (1874), that women’s suffrag