Susan B. Anthony was asking for the restoration of women’s rights when she said, “We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.” Women need to fight for their rights. There are fewer women in the workforce than men due to the popularity of the mentality that women should stay at home. We think Janie is so far removed from the average American woman in the 21st century. Little do we know that Janie walks amongst us today because these issues are still not being addressed in our modern day society. Zora Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is a representation of the problem that women face today of always being
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In an article written by Gumisai Mutume, who is a woman standing up for gender equality in Africa, she wrote, “However, over the same 30 years since the first World Conference on Women in Mexico City, “men have gone to the moon and back, yet women are still at the same place they were —” Women in Africa still deprived of education and employment. Their opportunities in the government are very limited. Yet, even when there seems to be no hope they continue to stand up their rights and have been able to pass laws that will improve the women’s positions. “In agriculture, sub-Saharan Africa’s most vital economic sector, women contribute 60–80 per cent of labor in food production, both for household consumption and for sale. But while they do most of the work, they lack access to markets and credit.” Africa has an issue with channeling money to women. Women are the ones doing most of the labor in food production and household production as provided in this example, yet they are being paid less than those who work less than them. Does no one see this very large error? Or are they just ignoring this fact, because of the women being “women”. “Out of the 1995 conference emerged a plan, the Beijing Platform for Action, which laid out areas that needed improvement if the position of women was to be improved. The areas include reducing poverty among women, stopping violence, providing access to education and health care and reducing economic and political inequality.” These laws have made progress, but very progress. And the women are not going to keep asking for their rights to be returned. They are going to start demanding for them to be returned. (Gumisai
In an article written by Gumisai Mutume, who is a woman standing up for gender equality in Africa, she wrote, “However, over the same 30 years since the first World Conference on Women in Mexico City, “men have gone to the moon and back, yet women are still at the same place they were —” Women in Africa still deprived of education and employment. Their opportunities in the government are very limited. Yet, even when there seems to be no hope they continue to stand up their rights and have been able to pass laws that will improve the women’s positions. “In agriculture, sub-Saharan Africa’s most vital economic sector, women contribute 60–80 per cent of labor in food production, both for household consumption and for sale. But while they do most of the work, they lack access to markets and credit.” Africa has an issue with channeling money to women. Women are the ones doing most of the labor in food production and household production as provided in this example, yet they are being paid less than those who work less than them. Does no one see this very large error? Or are they just ignoring this fact, because of the women being “women”. “Out of the 1995 conference emerged a plan, the Beijing Platform for Action, which laid out areas that needed improvement if the position of women was to be improved. The areas include reducing poverty among women, stopping violence, providing access to education and health care and reducing economic and political inequality.” These laws have made progress, but very progress. And the women are not going to keep asking for their rights to be returned. They are going to start demanding for them to be returned. (Gumisai