Throughout the history of the world, discrimination in all forms has been a constant battle; whether it’s race, gender, religion, beliefs, or appearance, it’s happening every day. Feminism - the women’s right movement - has caused controversy since the late 1800’s and continues to spark debates. Feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. A lot of people who disagree with the ideals of feminism have misinterpreted the true purpose and meaning of feminism. Many have a preconceived idea due to generational stigma; that feminism is not inclusive to men and is about promoting hatred of the male gender. Feminism, contrary to negative stereotypes is a movement that pushes for gender
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Jane Claire H. - a Buzzfeed community member - and other students at the Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Texas at Austin participated in the “I Need Feminism” campaign in 2013. A couple of the forty reasons were: ‘because there should be fifty women in the senate not twenty.’, ‘all people deserve equality and a chance to achieve.’, and ‘our bodies are still being legislated.’ (40 Reasons Why We Still Need Feminism). Rape culture plays a big part in why we need feminism because it is legal in thirty-one states for a rapist to sue for custody or visitation rights if his victim were to get pregnant and decide to raise the child proves that men are seen as superior to women.This inherently gives the rapist dominance over the rape victim and this is enforced through legislation like this that gives these abusers the right to sue for custody. We strongly believe in the need for feminism because equality for women and men shouldn’t still be an issue in 2016. Although men have more superiority over women, men face inequality when it comes to rape, custody cases, and seeking medical assistance for mental health …show more content…
We wanted to conduct research upon the views of feminism in our community, therefore we created a list of twelve questions to ask teachers and students. In the data that we collected not only did the statistics show the lack of education on the wage gap, but also revealed that age and gender plays a big role in understanding the ideas in feminism. Out of the four female students we interviewed - all of them believed that women were affected by sexism in media through being told how women should act, dress and behave on social media handles such as Twitter and Instagram. Throughout the world, the United States placed 65th on the OECD wage gap average with men making an additional $17.91 compared to a woman; however - North Korea has the highest wage gap of $36.61 extra made by men. Nevertheless - our answers varied throughout our male students - 50 percent of them believed the wage gap was real but claimed
Jane Claire H. - a Buzzfeed community member - and other students at the Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Texas at Austin participated in the “I Need Feminism” campaign in 2013. A couple of the forty reasons were: ‘because there should be fifty women in the senate not twenty.’, ‘all people deserve equality and a chance to achieve.’, and ‘our bodies are still being legislated.’ (40 Reasons Why We Still Need Feminism). Rape culture plays a big part in why we need feminism because it is legal in thirty-one states for a rapist to sue for custody or visitation rights if his victim were to get pregnant and decide to raise the child proves that men are seen as superior to women.This inherently gives the rapist dominance over the rape victim and this is enforced through legislation like this that gives these abusers the right to sue for custody. We strongly believe in the need for feminism because equality for women and men shouldn’t still be an issue in 2016. Although men have more superiority over women, men face inequality when it comes to rape, custody cases, and seeking medical assistance for mental health …show more content…
We wanted to conduct research upon the views of feminism in our community, therefore we created a list of twelve questions to ask teachers and students. In the data that we collected not only did the statistics show the lack of education on the wage gap, but also revealed that age and gender plays a big role in understanding the ideas in feminism. Out of the four female students we interviewed - all of them believed that women were affected by sexism in media through being told how women should act, dress and behave on social media handles such as Twitter and Instagram. Throughout the world, the United States placed 65th on the OECD wage gap average with men making an additional $17.91 compared to a woman; however - North Korea has the highest wage gap of $36.61 extra made by men. Nevertheless - our answers varied throughout our male students - 50 percent of them believed the wage gap was real but claimed