Women's studies

and social equality of the sexes. (Meriam Webster, n.d.). The women’s movement is a series of political campaigns for improvement for issues like reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay and sexual harassment among other points. (Strong-Boag, 2006) Smith, a well-known sociologist, researched feminist theories and had said that discourses or the topics and the ways of exchanging information regarding women’s issues often limit the choices in life women get. Inequality in…

impressions in this overcoming this struggle. Women’s suffrage, or their right to vote, was a concept that was fought for by a multitude of dedicated individuals. Alice Paul was a women’s rights activist who utilized her determination, education, courage, and persistence to make an everlasting impact on society. She was one of the few women who had the audacity to stand up for what she believed in. Alice Paul had one of the most powerful influences on women’s role in society not only in the…

In recent years, it has been reported that men and women are dying around the same age whether it be at a younger age or older age. “The role of biological factors in gender differences is better understood in terms of statistics and research studies about illness and mortality in both sexes. This also includes reproductive function, concentrations of sexual hormones, the expression of genes on the X and Y chromosomes and their effects and higher percentage of body fat in women.” (Zagrosek,…

way society thinks boys and girls should be. There is no research the proves 100% that children’s toys effect their career goals in a negative way but there are a lot of theories and researchers looking into whether this is true or not, like the studies done by Becky Francis. This is still a new topic that is being researched and revised over and over but there is a trend starting that shows just how gender stereotypes placed on children’s toys affect their view of themselves and their views on…

One of the most prominent changes has to be how much women’s rights progressed during the Victorian era. Women started receiving the same type of education as men, and they soon started working in the same professional field as the men did. In the Victorian era women’s rights progressed due to many factors, some of them being women feeling unsatisfied with their lives, and because women strived for independence. One of the reason’s why women’s rights began to progress during the Victorian era…

inferences towards the other three women and considering how each one differed from one another (1). She then brings in the idea of being “marked”. Society puts labels onto everything and everyone; it wants you to follow a certain code or discipline. A women’s image is usually thought of to contain makeup, so to not wear any would be considered marked in the mind of society. On the other hand men who do not wear makeup would be considered unmarked, because society does not signify men with…

the equal rights amendment was introduced in Congress for the first time in 1923, and stands for equal rights under the law and will not be revoked by any state in terms of one’s sex. In 1913, Alice Paul and her friend Lucy Burns who founded the Women’s National Party, a party which promotes equal rights for women. Paul proposed the equal rights amendment which embodied that woman, despite obtaining the right to vote, were not respectively secured protection from sexual injustice from the…

Dr. Harriot Hunt- An early female physician and women's rights activist. She was the first female to enroll into Harvard. She was refused twice by the school because she was trying to get in for the medical courses. At that time just men were aloud to study this and when she was accepted a few months later two black men were accepted and all the white men were outraged so they told her to leave and she complied. "Every individual, like a statue, in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and…

The Problem in a Common Counterargument against Women’s Alienated Sexuality In today’s social climate, finding arguments feminism is not a difficult task. Unfortunately, like many other social groups, the ideologies comprising the feminist movement are often misunderstood and then argued against in an improper context. One specific argument states that sexual objectification, the main support for Jagger’s argument that women become alienated from their own sexuality, does not exist and is…

forbidden ground? A few weeks ago the headlines in the Dutch papers shouted that ‘we’ had failed to realize a minimum of 30 percent women occupying positions on boards and in the top of corporations. Despite significant commitment to the advancement of women’s careers, progress appears to have stalled. The percentage of women on boards and senior-executive…