Gender And Gender Equality

In society these days there is a noticeable difference in the treatment of men and women, the most common examples would be found in the social, business and culturally convention realms. These ways of life have double standards in many different ways. There are many ways to convey the ways of discrimination towards women by men.

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a loosely‐coordinated, nationwide movement dedicated to ending police brutality that rose to prominence in late 2014. It takes its name from a hashtag started by three Black feminist activists Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi but the movement and the hashtag are not identical (Freelon, McIlwain, & Clark, 2016). BLM has achieved national reputation through their online and offline organizing, obtaining extensive news media coverage and glowing references in music and entertainment television. Based on a horrendous incident that sparked a concern for a lot of Black people across the world, the sudden need for a social movement was born called BLM. Black Lives Matter is a national organization working for the validity of Black life and also working to rebuild the Black liberation movement. Black Lives Matter broadens the conversation and highlight the incidents around state violence to include the ways in which Black people are intentionally left powerless at the hands of the state. This referring to the ways in which Black lives are deprived of basic human rights and dignity. According to the article The Murder of Walter Scott, which talks about race and class, “African Americans are less than 13% of the U.S. population yet they are nearly 50% of those killed by the police. North Charleston has a population of 104,000, 47% Black and the police force is 80% white (Miah, 2015)”.

“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons…but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” (Gloria Steinem) Gender equality has come a long way, however, this topic is a constant theme many individuals, to this day, seem to dismiss. Women have addressed equality issues around the world to help broaden views on things that should be equal rights and equal opportunities, regardless of gender. In recent years, women specifically have shown the importance of gender equality through Woman’s Equality Day, the push for equal pay for equal work, and most recently, the creation of The United State of Women.

It is hard to believe that I knew of Black Lives Matter (BLM), however, I never actually bother to learn what it is—I knew a succinct premise of what the movement is about, but never cared to inquire further on the subject. Nevertheless, attending events like the Brandeis’ Black Lives Matter’s Symposium allowed me to inform myself on different angles about the movement and understand it through a brief historical context and through different mediums and points of view.

“Black Lives Matter” is a contemporary movement that was designed to break racist police violence. The name of the organization itself had the ability to direct so much with just a few words; which shows that the directive that the movement is trying to present needs to be affirmed. The movement started as a small but brutal dissent in a St. Louis suburb that had broken out into a conflagration that has consumed all of America. The “Black Lives Matter” movement has compassed something in our time that is rare to us such as: avoiding the authority of our country’s commanding inauguration. Neither law enforcement nor Democrats were capable enough to bar the movement; which has bewildered

The current political climate in America over the death of unarmed black men has led to our generation newest current civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter. The purpose of Black Lives Matter is “to build local power and to intervene when violence was inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes...and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has the social, economic, and political power to thrive”(Black Lives Matter). The Black Lives Matter movement seeks to achieve a society where African Americans don’t have to fear racial profiling, fear being killed by police officers, or to judge by the color skin and not by their character. This movement came after the death of Trayvon Martin

The Black Lives Matter movement was created in 2013 after the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer, and after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In 2014, the phrase became a bold component for a new chapter in an age old historical fight to end social injustices. But the movement’s disruptive protests’ and passionate public speeches about racial inequality have been concerning to many American citizens who are curious about what the goal is for this generation of protesters. One of the most common misconceptions of the movement is people who are not involved in the movement thinking participants of the movement who are preaching, “Black lives matter,” means that other lives do not. But that is incorrect; I have witnessed advocates for the black lives matter movement, fight and spread awareness for injustices for other people outside of the black race.

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is a nationwide movement that is attempting to rebuild the Black Liberation Movement. From peaceful protest to riots, they continue to push the boundaries of right and wrong to progress their movement. This movement is broadening the conversation by stating that the movement isn’t focusing just on the deaths of the black males due to police brutality, but also bringing to light other topics that have a huge impact on how the Black community is perceived. Topics that talk about the 2.8 million black people that are incarcerated, or how Black queer and transgender men and women are treated like garbage, or even how Black females are looked at as less than nothing. The Black Lives Matter movement is a movement

I want to be an example to the younger generations. Having the opportunity to be role model that can stand for equality for all people. Younger generations have to be taught that they need to fight for equality between everyone. Locally, there should be empowerment schools that focus on the equality of everyone. In having schools teach children the right way in how equality looks and feels can make a difference in the future generations. We might be able to stop the unfairness that is occurring in our society. Nationally, I hope that we can come together to create a peaceful nation. Having everyone be treated with equal rights in our society and economic market. Having no step backs in the work place for women. Not having women chose their family or career. Globally, we all can come together to have a balance society and economic market. The balance won’t be at all time however, be in common grounds that everyone has to be treated with equal

The Black Lives Matter movement has swept across America. It 's branched out with chapters in over 31 cities and held rallies and boycotts across the United States(Sidner). The Black Lives Matter movement started with the outrage of the death of a young man. It continues to take over headlines and raise awareness on police brutality and inequality. However, the movement has met resistance from the All Lives Matter group. This group thinks that Black Lives Matter is a movement to express hatred towards other races. However, statistics, the views of fellow citizens, and the overall purpose of the Black Lives Matter movement, can prove that the movement wasn 't meant to express hate on other races and that we need to support the movement instead of going against it.

A member-led international network of than 40 chapters, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is an ideological and political intervention for intentional violence targeting black communities by the state and vigilantes (Garza 1). BLM has stirred up countless arguments that the phrase should be “All Lives Matter” which homogenizes very different experiences of racism and domination in America (4). Reverting back in time, slavery was the theft of millions of people for free labor; in modern time, racial inequality still exists in various aspects of everyday life such as politics and education. There are a plethora of reactions of different races towards the BLM movement and many of them are inspired to take action. Furthermore,

Many people are often misinformed or given bad first impressions of feminism. However, feminism is equal rights for all people of different race, sex, gender, and sexuality. Many of the people that give feminism a bad name, include a self-proclaimed feminist that is running for presidency, and meninists who are satirical equal rights activists. In reality, feminism is pro-gender equality and opportunities for all types of people.

Within the last three years (Black Lives Matter, 2015), the televised protest of the Black Lives Movement (BLM) has drawn international attention that community activist in search for equity would more than likely define as racial inequalities posed against African Americans in the United States. Erupting from a social media posting, “hashtag #BlackLivesMatter,” the Black Lives Movement was co-founded by community organizers,

the focus of Black Lives Matter is being articulated less as a demand for specific civil or political rights, and more as a broader claim for “black humanity.” Martin Luther King also used the language of human rights to internationalize the issue of racial inequality in the United States. BLM movement is following in king’s footsteps, taking a stance and demanding action. Both movements fight for freedom but in ways that seem to be opposite of the other, one in love, and one in hate.

Throughout the past few decades, the gender inequality discourse have became a dominant feature of international, national and local policy debate on the subject of economic development. This policy concern has emerged as an area of scholarly research which seeks to show that improving gender equity leads to economic growth.