Summary: Latina Communism Vs. Liberal Feminism

Being a woman in today’s times may be easier than it was a hundred years ago, but the fight for equality with men is far from over. Landmark events such as women’s suffrage in the United States in 1919, gaining women the right to vote, and Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965, with the Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution implies a right to privacy, guided the movement in the progressive direction, yet phenomena such as the Wage Gap between men and women and the glass ceiling are evident throughout the country. Among the various theories that are applicable to the issues women face in their everyday lives, the two theories that personally apply to me, as a Cuban-American woman, as well as many other women in the country, are the Latina Feminism theory and the Liberal Feminism Theory. Latina women face various struggles, ranging from street harassment to immigration. For the purposes of this paper, the two theories that will be discussed will be applied to the issue concerning wage inequality. …show more content…
This theory is a subtheory of Feminism theory that started in the mid-20th century to bring light to Latina women as an oppressed minority that went unnoticed. Latina women’s contributions and achievements go ignored and are consistently excluded when talked about by scholars (Charleswell 2014). Latina Feminism, as well as Black Feminism, keeps the feminist movement intersectional. The second theory that will be discussed is the Liberal Feminism Theory. This theory states that gender differences in socialization are the cause of oppression (Morash 2006), and therefore stresses egalitarianism, or basic, equal human rights for everyone, including the freedom of choice and equal opportunity. Liberal feminism tries to change laws and policies to change things like the Wage Gap between men and women, as well as prevent women from being denied economic opportunities simply for being a