In the words of G.D. Anderson, “feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength (Pugachevsky).” This quote wraps up the original motives of the women at the beginning of the Second Wave of Feminism. Feminism is a hot topic in the media today, as was it over the past fifty years. The women of the Second Wave of Feminism, also known as the Women’s Liberation Movement, were trying to acquire the right to be equal to men in the eyes of society and government, which is still the goal today.
A starting point for the Women’s Liberation Movement was the 1969 Miss America Pageant. Protesters said that the pageant was a “Cattle Parade.” It degraded women to just images …show more content…
Men have always had the upperhand when it comes to getting a job in the labor force. Women have been seen as house workers. From the second feminist movement came the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which was a system in which women gained jobs in every sector they had not been able to participate (33 Things Every Girl [Page 161]). It was said that as women’s participation in the labor force increased, the position they held in the labor force was decreasing (Freeman). Once women were accepted into the labor force, they were still not treated as equal. Women have continued to earn eighty-one cents for every dollar a man makes (John). A huge first for women, was that by 1961 there were nineteen women serving in congress (Eisenberg). But as Jane Shepherdson says it just wasn’t enough, “We kind of go, oh great , there's two women in the cabinet. That's shocking. We are half of the population, we're not a minority, and we're not represented in the way we should be”(John). The statement of how we’re half of the population yet we are not represented the way we should be can be used in any …show more content…
Beverley Knight states, "...But when you speak up about it you're (women) the one who is labelled as combative, aggressive, because feminism is seen as some kind of putting on a man's angry cloak” (John). A current day example of women being put down by men and the judgement they give is a popular actress Jennifer Lawrence. In 2014, Sony was hacked and information was leaked, some of the information leaked was salaries paid to the stars of movies. One of the victims of the information being leaked was Jennifer Lawrence. When she looked at the figures of how much she was getting paid she also saw what her male co-stars were getting paid. Her salary was significantly lower than her male counterpart. Lawrence wondered why she was getting paid less than her co-stars, but she stated she was scared about what the men would think of her for wanting to be paid equally. “I didn't want to seem ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled.’ At the time, that seemed like a fine idea, until I saw the payroll on the Internet and realized every man I was working with definitely didn't worry about being ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled,’” stated Lawrence (Lawrence). Jennifer Lawrence was being controlled by society, and the thought that if a woman speaks up about what she believes in or what is right, she is a brat ,or she does not know what she is talking about. “As soon as a woman gets to an age where she
A starting point for the Women’s Liberation Movement was the 1969 Miss America Pageant. Protesters said that the pageant was a “Cattle Parade.” It degraded women to just images …show more content…
Men have always had the upperhand when it comes to getting a job in the labor force. Women have been seen as house workers. From the second feminist movement came the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which was a system in which women gained jobs in every sector they had not been able to participate (33 Things Every Girl [Page 161]). It was said that as women’s participation in the labor force increased, the position they held in the labor force was decreasing (Freeman). Once women were accepted into the labor force, they were still not treated as equal. Women have continued to earn eighty-one cents for every dollar a man makes (John). A huge first for women, was that by 1961 there were nineteen women serving in congress (Eisenberg). But as Jane Shepherdson says it just wasn’t enough, “We kind of go, oh great , there's two women in the cabinet. That's shocking. We are half of the population, we're not a minority, and we're not represented in the way we should be”(John). The statement of how we’re half of the population yet we are not represented the way we should be can be used in any …show more content…
Beverley Knight states, "...But when you speak up about it you're (women) the one who is labelled as combative, aggressive, because feminism is seen as some kind of putting on a man's angry cloak” (John). A current day example of women being put down by men and the judgement they give is a popular actress Jennifer Lawrence. In 2014, Sony was hacked and information was leaked, some of the information leaked was salaries paid to the stars of movies. One of the victims of the information being leaked was Jennifer Lawrence. When she looked at the figures of how much she was getting paid she also saw what her male co-stars were getting paid. Her salary was significantly lower than her male counterpart. Lawrence wondered why she was getting paid less than her co-stars, but she stated she was scared about what the men would think of her for wanting to be paid equally. “I didn't want to seem ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled.’ At the time, that seemed like a fine idea, until I saw the payroll on the Internet and realized every man I was working with definitely didn't worry about being ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled,’” stated Lawrence (Lawrence). Jennifer Lawrence was being controlled by society, and the thought that if a woman speaks up about what she believes in or what is right, she is a brat ,or she does not know what she is talking about. “As soon as a woman gets to an age where she