In today’s age, many people are still trying to gain equal rights. One would think 59 years after the start of the majority of civil rights movements that everyone would have their natural born rights as of now. Although people of color officially by law have the rights of any other white person, most white men have not gotten the memo yet. The same goes for women. Rape is still the woman’s fault. Women get paid less than the average man. It is taboo to see the woman as the head of a household. Many people do not understand what feminism even is. Majority of people look at the root “fem” out of feminism and automatically connect with female. The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that feminism is defined: the belief that men and women should
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In 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft published A vindication of the Rights of Woman this piece of work established the philosophy of feminism. The first woman’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York 1848. The organizer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, presented the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, based off of the United States Declaration of Independence; the article was in an attempt to gain social and political equalities for women. It was not until 1860 when New York revised the Married Women’s Property Act, saying that women had shared custody of their own children, and the right to inherit property. In 1870 the fifteenth amendment was ratified in the U.S. giving black males the right to vote. It took fifty years for the nineteenth amendment to be ratified, giving women the right to vote as well. The attack on Pearl …show more content…
After looking at arguments as to where women are on the social scale in America one can almost instantly tell that a man wrote the argument that women are treated as equals. The opposite goes for the argument that women are still severely oppressed in America. An argument supporting that women are treated equal in the United States says “Women have made great strides in U.S. society over the past several decades and have, in many ways, surpassed men.” The article continues saying that women are dominant in educational attainment. (Woman’s Rights) It is reasonable to see a large jump in attainment after being oppressed for so long. The people of a revolution are motivated and inspired to take a jump for new opportunities placed in front of them. Although after the ecstasy fades the norm will drop back down to what is equal or close to the previous oppressors. From a young age women are told to not play in the dirt cause their dress will get dirty or put that down, so on and so forth. While little boys can go do whatever they please, question what that is, and investigate into that. After being told from a young age that girls should not be playing with dirty stuff and investigating that their mind desires. Then how will they ever be able to pursue an interest in sciences because it is always in the
In 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft published A vindication of the Rights of Woman this piece of work established the philosophy of feminism. The first woman’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York 1848. The organizer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, presented the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, based off of the United States Declaration of Independence; the article was in an attempt to gain social and political equalities for women. It was not until 1860 when New York revised the Married Women’s Property Act, saying that women had shared custody of their own children, and the right to inherit property. In 1870 the fifteenth amendment was ratified in the U.S. giving black males the right to vote. It took fifty years for the nineteenth amendment to be ratified, giving women the right to vote as well. The attack on Pearl …show more content…
After looking at arguments as to where women are on the social scale in America one can almost instantly tell that a man wrote the argument that women are treated as equals. The opposite goes for the argument that women are still severely oppressed in America. An argument supporting that women are treated equal in the United States says “Women have made great strides in U.S. society over the past several decades and have, in many ways, surpassed men.” The article continues saying that women are dominant in educational attainment. (Woman’s Rights) It is reasonable to see a large jump in attainment after being oppressed for so long. The people of a revolution are motivated and inspired to take a jump for new opportunities placed in front of them. Although after the ecstasy fades the norm will drop back down to what is equal or close to the previous oppressors. From a young age women are told to not play in the dirt cause their dress will get dirty or put that down, so on and so forth. While little boys can go do whatever they please, question what that is, and investigate into that. After being told from a young age that girls should not be playing with dirty stuff and investigating that their mind desires. Then how will they ever be able to pursue an interest in sciences because it is always in the