Women's rights

woman’s rights are much alike in the way both sides wanted to be equal, they believe no matter what sex or skin color, a human was a human and they both fought for it. Women and slaves both wanted to have equal rights or the same rights as the white man. Both groups also wanted to work and earn their own and they were also just as qualified to do the same jobs as the white men. Lastly both causes had organizations to help achieve equal rights among everyone. Women and slaves wanted the rights of…

Our society or any country should not discriminate between men and women on the basis of gender. However, gender equality emphasis that natural or biological difference between men and women will not lead to a change or difference in status and rights in all fields of life or effect any field. Gender issue is the consequence of continual inequality between men and women in all field of life so why this discrimination against women and it showed itself in different workforce, customs and…

American Civil Rights Movement, Feminism, and the grassroots Chicana/o Movement. These movements changed the way that America viewed the Constitution and Bill of Rights through different means such as peaceful and violent protests, forming activist groups, and fighting discrimination in court. By using different tactics, they each helped to revolutionize the idea that not only white men deserve rights and respect. Though these three movements all worked to achieve equality and rights for the…

sectors of feminism outside of my privileged middle-class perspective. One topic that was very foreign and exciting to me was trans-feminism. In this unit, we brought in a male to female, trans woman named Rachel Clark. Rachel is a highly active trans-rights activist, who has been interviewed by CBC, The Toronto Star, and CTV. She spoke with the group about her trans experience and spoke about her activism for trans…

The globalization phenomenon has presented a wide variety of contradictions. One would believe that due to the rapidly expanding and interconnected world, more opportunities which foster growth would be presented. However, gender equality is an example of a facet of globalization, which has continued to fluctuate through time, creating paradoxes in its path. Globalization was expected to bring prosperity to all parts of the world, breaking down social and economic boundaries along the way,…

Women have never had the same opportunities in society that men have. Women are often criticized with their every action. Criticisms like, women don’t have any authority, or women don’t have the same intellectual ability as men. These criticisms have created limitations on what women can achieve in society. In the article “Fear of the Female Voice,” Sarah Gailey intends to change the mindset of how women are constructed in society. Gailey uses an authoritative tone, along with issues that still…

Women nowadays have very different rights than they did around the beginning of the 20th century. These rights were brought by the change in social expectations in women since that time. These changes can be shown using two short stories taking place in that time period, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway even today there are major differences in the ways men and women are treated, but we are coming a lot closer…

Instead, women’s issues should be placed on a higher pedestal because to date, women are still suffering from issues such as underrepresentation in leadership and politics, sexual violence, genitalia mutilation, salary difference, and the deprivation of their innate rights to be educated. First, the government has a long history of gross underrepresentation of women in national and international…

in what seemed as a never ending bloodshed over the rights and liberties of enslaved African Americans. In the end, blacks were liberated from backbreaking slavery and were granted freedom as citizens of the United States of America, and through the 15th amendment were also given the right to vote. But despite the outcome of the American Civil War, there was one group however, who was still being denied the most basic of freedoms like the right to vote given by the American Constitution. This…

I propose (as did Young) social conditioning, the sociological process of training individuals to respond in what is deemed a socially acceptable manner. Resulting from patriarchy, men for years had power over women (Young 1980). Women’s freedom and motion were restricted (Young 1980). We can see that in the use of corsets and hair spray. A better example, however, is how we teach girls to sit. By instructing them to cross their legs, we teach them to minimize the space they physically…