Women are strong in today's society, but they have experienced many challenges in fighting the right that they should deserve. A couple decade ago, women did not have the right to be equal as men. They were discriminated by men and had no rights for protection. The society thought men should go work and women should stay home to do housework. Until the 1960s, more women started to stand up to fight for their rights, because they thought men and women should be treated equally and deserve the same rights. These women called themselves feminist. They left a remarkable history in America, even in the world by starting the gender revolution which called the women’s rights movement. There were some famous people who started the movement and created
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Gloria Steinem was a successful young journalist who led women to speak out for increasing rights for themselves, but advocating increased women’s rights was not a smooth path. The society doesn’t appreciate women like Steinem. Morin states, “ Many American concluded that all ‘women’s libbers’ were crazy radicals who were out of touch with mainstream U.S.values” (Morin 1). However, Gloria Steinem was an excellent student in school. When Steinem was in college, she won a scholarship to study in India after she graduated. Since she really wanted to study more about government and politics, she broke her engagement with her fiance. She also did an illegal abortion when she knew she was pregnant. When she returns from India, she worked as an editor for a magazine called Help! At the mean time, she started relationships with different men, but she didn’t think about getting married. When people ask her about marriage, she said, “marriage makes someone legally half a person… What man wants to love with half a person?” (Morin 2). At 1969, Steinem starts engaging in the women’s movement by showing her idea on a published article, “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation.” She argued that women’s movement attempted to deconstruct the restrictive gender role that was assigned to each person by social structure. The article …show more content…
According to “The Fruits of Our Labor: Women in the Labor Movement”, Cheryl Gooding and Pat Reeve say that women want to have more rights or opportunities for their job, but there are a lot of barriers that slow or even stop the women's movement in labor. On one hand, unions protect workers from being treated unfairly, but many female workers are not the members of their labor unions. Joining unions is the only way that women can fight for benefits from their workplace. An union-represented women can earn more money, bargain collectively for the condition of workplaces, and get equal opportunities for jobs promotion. However, about 20 percent in the workforce are the female contingent workers who are less stable than workers who work as full-time. These women are not part of the union. The reason for this may cause by their lack of understanding of these rights that they should deserve. Another reason is that unions do not see these women as a precious organizing target, so they prefer not to add them into a more concentrated and stable workforce. On another hand, women have less authority in the union. Women very often are found the positions which have less authority and clout than men in the
Gloria Steinem was a successful young journalist who led women to speak out for increasing rights for themselves, but advocating increased women’s rights was not a smooth path. The society doesn’t appreciate women like Steinem. Morin states, “ Many American concluded that all ‘women’s libbers’ were crazy radicals who were out of touch with mainstream U.S.values” (Morin 1). However, Gloria Steinem was an excellent student in school. When Steinem was in college, she won a scholarship to study in India after she graduated. Since she really wanted to study more about government and politics, she broke her engagement with her fiance. She also did an illegal abortion when she knew she was pregnant. When she returns from India, she worked as an editor for a magazine called Help! At the mean time, she started relationships with different men, but she didn’t think about getting married. When people ask her about marriage, she said, “marriage makes someone legally half a person… What man wants to love with half a person?” (Morin 2). At 1969, Steinem starts engaging in the women’s movement by showing her idea on a published article, “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation.” She argued that women’s movement attempted to deconstruct the restrictive gender role that was assigned to each person by social structure. The article …show more content…
According to “The Fruits of Our Labor: Women in the Labor Movement”, Cheryl Gooding and Pat Reeve say that women want to have more rights or opportunities for their job, but there are a lot of barriers that slow or even stop the women's movement in labor. On one hand, unions protect workers from being treated unfairly, but many female workers are not the members of their labor unions. Joining unions is the only way that women can fight for benefits from their workplace. An union-represented women can earn more money, bargain collectively for the condition of workplaces, and get equal opportunities for jobs promotion. However, about 20 percent in the workforce are the female contingent workers who are less stable than workers who work as full-time. These women are not part of the union. The reason for this may cause by their lack of understanding of these rights that they should deserve. Another reason is that unions do not see these women as a precious organizing target, so they prefer not to add them into a more concentrated and stable workforce. On another hand, women have less authority in the union. Women very often are found the positions which have less authority and clout than men in the