What Happened To The Women's Movement Summary

There are many feminist issues in the western society alone, and many that women have been fighting for many decades. One area with large issues for feminists is politics and the miss representation of women within politics. The event in which I attended was a lecture and discussion given by Linda Trimble, a professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Alberta, who talked about her resent research in gender marking in Canadian politics. The lecture went as followed, an overview of her study, what is gender marking, quantitive findings and explanations, qualitative findings including cases discussing Kim Campbell, Paul Martin, and Justin Trudeau, and finished with a summary of key findings. After the initial lecture, there was then an …show more content…
One specially is the paper titled, “What Happened to the Women’s Movement” (Staggenborg, Taylor, 2005) because Trimble is making it her life’s work to research gender inequality within politics so that she contributes to stopping it, therefore the women’s movement is not dead it is just hiding in plain sight to avoid negative criticism in the media. Today, any time the word feminism comes up or any event clearly states that it is about feminist’s issues then media mediately starts to create a negative persona about the event and about feminists, therefore, women have stopped making their contributions very known until they have a strong case. The media thinks that the feminist movement is dead and therefore society does too, but women are still fighting the issues just out of medias sight and that is what the lecture shows. Linda Trimble and her team did not make their work known until they had a lot of information and a strong case so that the media didn’t take her positive work and make it so hated that it was essentially useless to the cause. Trimble and her team prove that the women’s movement is not dead it is just in