Women's Liberation Definition Essay

Liberation is a trend that has been sweeping the nation since it first came about. The United States became the United States by the colonists liberating themselves form Great Britain on July 4th, 1776, African American Slaves became liberated on January 1, 1863 by the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and over the past semi-century, 50 years, women have been gaining more and more liberation as well. But what is liberation? How how does it come about? Control comes from seven different powers—money, knowledge, God/ religion, morality, charisma, size, authority, violence— and liberation is achieved when someone no longer holds any of these powers over you. Just like the African America slaves, in the past women have mainly been controlled by money, knowledge, …show more content…
While these conventions gave women solidarity it took 50 years until changes started to happen. The 1960s women’s suffrage movement really showed that women were done being pushed around. When women gained the right to vote it was the first step to liberation. Not long after that women began to fight for job equality and equal pay. Even though in todays society women still do not have complete equal pay or job equality, the Equal Pay Act of 1970 was the second step to liberation, it gave women the power of money. Because women could now fund themselves they were less under the control of men. Women no longer husband funded and did not needed their permission to spend money. Later on in 1972 women gained equal access to education as men resulting in a third form of power. Now that women had gained equal rights for education they could not longer be controlled and put down by men’s “superior” knowledge base. While violence against females was still and issues there were ways that inequality of power was addressed as