Women 's Rights For Equal Treatment And Equal Rights

Women’s rights in America in late 1800’s women’s right to vote women in medicine and the equal rights for women are the 3 main points that were big in the 1800’s.

Today's feminist movement is in jeopardy of losing a following unless the woman at the forefront begin to identify with the fact that not every feminist is white, middle class, and cis-gendered. The modern idea of feminism has a fault in the way that its main idea seems to be fighting for equality of white women, this factor neglects every other woman in the world. This sets a double standard within the grouping of women as a whole just as women are fighting to abolish double standards set in place against sexes. This idea of white feminism simultaneously neglects the different problems of women of all demographics, while also grouping women together as a whole as if the struggles white women face are the same struggles all women face.

At this time period racism and discrimination was going on, women were fighting for equal rights. However African American women had to fight double because of racism.

The United States of America was built on the unfair labor of others. The United States used slaves to produce an abundant amount of cotton in the South. Many mill owners started using children to work in the factories. Later on, many mill owners employed young, unmarried women to work in the textile mills, straightening cotton threads as the cotton entered the water-powered looms. The United States has been developed on wrongful labor of others by racism being the effect of slavery, lack of education being the effect of child labor, and unfair woman rights being the effect of the labor of Lowell females.

Feminism is an important liberation movement all around the world fighting for equal rights for women due to their oppression in a male dominated world. For most of time, men have had the upper hand in everything in comparison to women. In regards to Why Modern Feminism is White Women’s Privilege by Athlone McGinnis, “the core of the feminist movement is its opposition to “traditional gender roles.” In the western world, women have traditionally taken on the role of a housewife, while men provide for the family financially. We have had people fight for women’s right to vote, women’s right to have the only word in decision making when it comes to our bodies, and fighting for our right to own our sexuality rather than being shamed for it. Although we have made many advancements already, we still have some problems to deal with within our community. In our community of feminism we still face racial struggles, class struggles, and anti-colonial struggles. Many times people take on the title of being a feminist but fail to acknowledge the importance of intersectionality. Intersectional feminism recognizes that social issues come from a deeper stance than what appears in front of us. This idea brings awareness to the fact that race, sex, gender, religion, and ability all influence how oppression occurs. The point intersectional feminism is trying to make is that not all women face the same oppression and we need to acknowledge this. The term “white feminism” was coined as a phrase

This week’s reading discussed issues particularly affecting women. Chapter 7 talked about women not have equal rights and because of that it results in women being subject to violence, discrimination, unequal opportunity to education and health insurance. In 1980 the United States signed the law entitled, (CEDAW) elimination of all discrimination against women but they never ratified the law. At first this was a shocker to me because when I first read the law I thought it was just for equal rights for women but this law also includes things that are contrary to the United States laws.

In america the rights women have gained are good, on the other hand people still think there are still some things to overcome. In most places women have had the right to vote. Some say that women remain at a disadvantage in education as well and women continue to make up more than most of students who drop out before completing the fourth grade, as well as making up for half of the world is one billion adults. Each year the number of females entering into higher educational programs and universities increases greatly. Another great thing for women is that of own body rights. In many nations abortions are legal and women have a wide variety of different things , such as birth control. This right in many nations remains as a central continuing debate issue.

The feminist movement has it’s way of benefiting women, but it’s really only for white women. Women of color still struggle with equal pay today. For example, in the film Awakening during the second wave white women were able to get better jobs faster, they would be told to lift up their skirts and if they were younger than 30 they were hired. But in the film they didn’t even show or bother to talk about women of color working in the airlines. That’s because women of color weren’t viewed as women, just because they weren’t white they were no longer considered beautiful.

This class brought to light the racial inequality within the feminism movements. In the suffrage movement, the main contributors were wealthy white women. An example of this exclusion is the lower class immigrant women who were concerned with making a living in better working conditions than voting. The trend continued to the second-wave feminism, where white-suburban housewives were the focus of the movement. Black and Chicana women’s issues were consistently ignored during this wave. This is an important aspect of feminism because it shows that there is room for growth in the current feminism wave. Feminism should not be based on race.

Many African American, Latin American, Asian American, and Native American women have participated in movements to overcome racism and gain recognition of their ethnic histories and identities. Some of these women focus on the cultural and economic problems of women of color. As women’s studies have become established on college campuses, new generations of writers, researchers, and students have developed their own definitions of and approaches to feminism.

Throughout history women’s rights have been a conflict in society because of the many unfair advantages given to men and not women. Social injustice is shown through women’s rights by their voting rights, employment, and healthcare. Due to these dilemmas women all over the world have gathered together to create a group enforcing women’s rights. For example, in the book, The American Women’s Movement it talks about the group known as “The National Organization for Women (NOW)” (MacLean 71). It became one of the largest, most membered feminist organization in the country. The organization branched out to different sized region cities.

Feminist have only ever wanted one thing, to be treated equally as their male counterparts. In school settings the only part of the women’s rights movement that is really discussed is the suffrage movement. There were a lot of women involved in the fight for equality, Susan B Anthony being the most recognized today. There is a hidden American history to the women’s rights movement, women of color were equally involved as white women. As Terrell once stated, “A white woman has only one handicap to overcome, a great one, true, her sex; a colored woman faces two-her sex and her race” (Conger). Women of color have been active, present voice within feminism, despite American history not giving them credit.

Ever since the beginning, feminism has been severely needed more than most realized. Although we have came a long way since the days of Mary Wollstonecraft, there is still a lot of work left to be done for us women. Despite the many people who would be bold enough to say feminism is not needed, there is another underlying issue with feminism that some wish to leave unaddressed. Women of color are virtually invisible when it comes to popularized feminist movements and rights [known to some as white feminism] which is tremendously disadvantageous for the feminist movement as a whole, for we are all still women and looked down upon as the weaker sex by

For many years, women have aimed for gaining equality with men. They’re opportunities were taken away because of the fact that they were women. Overtime feminism has expanded and diversified in many different aspects including approach and priorities. The changes in them are result of many different social economic groups of women because of the various goals set for methods of creating change, which are implemented within the movement. The feminist movement has been trying to give equal rights to women who have been destitute of their equality and privileges that man have never given them. Feminism is beneficial to men, women, and their families because it is allowing everyone to have an equal opportunity in life to achieve all they can without any discrimination based on their sex.

I don't think I quite remember when I started to identify as a black feminist. There was never that moment of clarity because to me black women are equal to everyone, we deserve to be recognized and celebrated just like everyone else. This movement was founded on the historical disadvantage of women. Black feminism to be specific is the desire for equal access to opportunities for females, not systemic racism, sexism, mass incarceration etc. People get so hung up on the word but fail to realize that feminism fights for gender equality in a culture that has historically devalued women. Feminism isn't about making women stronger, we're already strong. It's about society acknowledging that strength and treating us as equals. What everyone fails