Over the years women have been gaining position within society. This is due to women, and some men, rallying and fighting for their rights.
Back when women were stuck at home while their husbands were out working, empowerment and feminist groups were formed to create a starting point for gaining their rights. These groups are not so common today as the movement has been taken online with feminism spreading over almost all social media web pages. In Nisha Chittal’s report, on the msnbc current affairs website, she explains that social media allows everyone to get involved in events. At the Texas state capital in the U.S. there was a protest on allowing women to have the right to abortion, and although not everyone was able to turn up, there …show more content…
In I Am Malala she talks about going on tv shows and doing interviews urging for girls like her to have the right to go to school just like her brothers. She is quoted to say that, “education is our right… Just as it is our right to sing.” This is an important point Malala makes and sadly she had to pay for her standing up for what she believes in and what is right. She then says that, “if I am speaking for my rights, for the rights of girls, I am doing nothing wrong.” It is often the little things that make the biggest difference, things like women gaining the right to ride their bikes and doing interviews about the oppression of women. These little things are all sparks creating a flame which will spread and gain momentum and support. Some female celebrities have realised the sexist interview questions they receive on the red carpet and other events such as how do they stay “in shape” or just focusing the camera on their body to show what they are wearing and retort in ways that get the much needed attention in the media. An example of this was when Scarlett Johansson’s Avengers co-star Tony Stark gets asked thought provoking questions and she only receives “the rabbit food question.” Mic.com not only accounts for this situation but others where the celebrities have fired back. These small retaliations will eventually all add up to the way our media works with women in the
Back when women were stuck at home while their husbands were out working, empowerment and feminist groups were formed to create a starting point for gaining their rights. These groups are not so common today as the movement has been taken online with feminism spreading over almost all social media web pages. In Nisha Chittal’s report, on the msnbc current affairs website, she explains that social media allows everyone to get involved in events. At the Texas state capital in the U.S. there was a protest on allowing women to have the right to abortion, and although not everyone was able to turn up, there …show more content…
In I Am Malala she talks about going on tv shows and doing interviews urging for girls like her to have the right to go to school just like her brothers. She is quoted to say that, “education is our right… Just as it is our right to sing.” This is an important point Malala makes and sadly she had to pay for her standing up for what she believes in and what is right. She then says that, “if I am speaking for my rights, for the rights of girls, I am doing nothing wrong.” It is often the little things that make the biggest difference, things like women gaining the right to ride their bikes and doing interviews about the oppression of women. These little things are all sparks creating a flame which will spread and gain momentum and support. Some female celebrities have realised the sexist interview questions they receive on the red carpet and other events such as how do they stay “in shape” or just focusing the camera on their body to show what they are wearing and retort in ways that get the much needed attention in the media. An example of this was when Scarlett Johansson’s Avengers co-star Tony Stark gets asked thought provoking questions and she only receives “the rabbit food question.” Mic.com not only accounts for this situation but others where the celebrities have fired back. These small retaliations will eventually all add up to the way our media works with women in the