Feminism In Today's Society

How has feminism changed today? How is it different than how it was 20 years ago? Equality in the workplace, abortion and sexual harassment, and the gender roles portrayed in the media are just some of the everyday struggles that women have to deal with that men do not. The culture of women being less than men is real, of women being treated more as objects instead of living, breathing, entities, is real. In today 's difficult and sometimes frustrating society, there is a very big need for a system that gives everybody an equal chance. It’s not hard to realize that women are underestimated in the workplace and payed less than men for doing the same work. Perhaps the biggest wall that is stopping the advancement of business women to managerial …show more content…
It today’s society there are more and more women coming forward about being sexually harassed. This could take place anywhere, when your walking down the street, in a store, at a party, a workplace and in the military. It’s a growing problem. There are women scared to walk down the street at night because they are afraid of what a man might do to her. On October 8th of this year, Mary Spears a 27 year old female was at the American Legion Joe Louis Post No. 375 on the east side of Detroit when the 38-year-old man approached her and began to talk to her. The man asked her for her phone number, she refused saying she was already involved with someone. The man then began to harass her which then caused a fight, having the suspect pulling out a handgun on Mary Spears and killed her. How is this a reasonable death? Mary Spears did nothing wrong. Mary 's death sparked a riot on social media. The hashtag YesToAllWomen began to trend with people weighing in their inputs and their stories of things that happened to them. “#yesallwomen because its not about this one shooting or an anti-male agenda. Its about having to constantly defend our right to be safe.”(Shonebot, Twitter). Street harassment is a very big problem today. There have been many instances this year alone of people or famous youtubers posting videos online of them “butt grabbing” women whiles walking on the street and …show more content…
The reality is that a woman will seek an abortion—legal or otherwise—almost instinctively and in self defense. A woman will do this when an unwanted pregnancy presents an excessive strain on her or her family’s physical, emotional or economic resources. Throughout the ages, courageous women have made it their right and indeed their responsibility. In a civilized society we owe women the legal right to make their decision safely. It is a matter of survival.” (Feminist Majority Foundation). Men believe that they can control what women want to do with their bodies, that goes with abortions and everything else. Men do not own the body of another women. There are many reasons why a woman might need an aborition, that can be because of financial issues, not being financially stable enough for a child. Angela White, a breastfeeding consolur explained that “the cost of an average hospital birth is approximately $8,000 and prenatal care provided by a physician can cost between $1,500 and $3,000. For the nearly 50 million Americans who do not have insurance, this would mean an out-of-pocket expense of $10,000” To thing about that, if this was a single mother how would she get this money? There is women who can’t even take care of their financal situations by themselves, they have hardly no money to live off of and then they are expected to pay this