Gender Equality And Modern Feminism

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.

The United States of America has taken great strides to shrink the gap between African Americans and white Americans, but have they taken the same measures in regards to gender equality? Women worked tirelessly for suffrage in 1913 and since then have made an effort to become equivalent with men; however in recent years, there has been a pushback from the radical conservatives to put women back “in the kitchen.” For centuries, women have been placed into these caregiving roles in which they are to be seen and not heard – always being dominated by the men they have been told to cook and clean for. Even now, in our Congress, women are being put down for standing up for this “great cause,” a cause that wouldn’t exist if people were all treated

The third wave “Feminism Is made up by a bunch of angry woman who deny basic human nature; who gives instruction that is almost designed to make woman miserable” (Milo). 3rd wave feminism sprouted with “these women and others like them grew up with the expectation of achievement and examples of female success as well as an awareness of the barriers presented by sexism, racism, and classism.” (encyclopedia) with this state of mind today’s feminism has derailed and is currently driven by false statistics, hatred for the male patriarchy, and the constant complaining for things we already have!

The majority who made up the first wave were middle and upper class white women. However the second wave included women of color and other minorities in this country. Third-wave is continuing to address the financial, social and cultural inequalities. In this wave, feminists have also had to maintain focus on women 's reproductive rights, such as the right to abortion.

Premises: (Given) gender has been a point of controversy throughout history. (Given) controversy leads to differences in viewpoints and interpretations.

Second Wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities. The movement was deeply divided by young and old, upper-class and lower-class, conservative and radical. The movement focused on means used to strive for equality: lobbying Congress to change laws, publicizing issues like rape and domestic violence through media, and reaching to ordinary women telling them how feminism would benefit them. The start of the 1970’s was the beginning of women taking the reins of emerging media platforms, and using the media as an advantage for protesting and outreach.

According to Kinser, while Second wave feminism inculcated women the gender equality and their liberations as citizens and individual human beings, Third wave feminism focused on more subjects related to social change. For example, more women of color stood up for changing of cultural and political separations. The first and second wave feminist fought, third wave and post feminists are living the present where women are treating “almost” equal to men. Equality for women was not given as how young generations are believing. I was also a young woman uneducated about feminism who had stereotypes for being feminist. I misunderstood that feminists are women who are arguing women superiority until I learned about it because I never questioned about

The 21st century saw the rise of the third wave feminist in which woman outside the traditional feminist block of white middle-class college graduate started to challenge the feminists establishments. The third wave wanted to include more women in the feminist movement my Nora T lesbians transgender and bisexual women as well as poor and working class with

From major events such as the recent presidential election, to social disputes such as the wage gap, one issue comes into the spotlight: gender inequality. For centuries, society viwed women as the inferior gender. In the 18th century philosophers such as Rousseau and Voltaire spread their ideas on how women exist to obey men; although it took decades, women began to show their discontent with these ideas. They pushed for human rights such as education and voting rights. Nearly two hundred years later, the United States gives women more rights than even before. Unfortunately, women still do not receive all the same rights as men. Today, many women identify themselves as feminists – people who advocate the equal rights

Approximately 20% of the US population still identify as feminist and argue that women still face inequality in western society. I will discuss and dismantle their main talking points, which are the wage gap, portrayal of women in the

The third phase of feminism continued what the second-wave did not finish. It began in the mid-1990s and continuing into the present. This phase focuses on the body, racism and race, culture, labor, abortion, welfare rights, sexuality, division, disability, domestic violence, and harassment. Today, men and women identify themselves as a feminist. Even more, women want equality, but do not want to be identified as feminist.

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.

3: The first obvious difference between 2nd and 3rd wave feminism is time: 2nd wave occurred mostly in the 1960s and 1970s, while 3rd wave is generally considered to take place in the 1990s and later. Additionally, 3rd wave focuses more on the individual experience and possible intersectionality, as opposed to 2nd wave, which focused more on women receiving legal rights. Chapter 1 of Women’s Studies discusses the advances the 2nd wave movement brought about, particularly in the cases of Roe v. Wade, adding Gender and Women’s Studies to a number of colleges and universities, the Equal Pay Act in 1963, Title VII, as well as a commission to enforce these anti-discriminatory laws (Shaw and Lee, 7). While this did make a difference in the lives of many women, legal change without societal change (as those who enforce the legal system are still socialized in our culture) can be unproductive.

Throughout the last century, women have had to fight to have the same opportunities as men. Women have had to earn the right to vote, the right to have a career, and the right to autonomy. However, these are all rights that men have simply been given, which is why today’s feminists work to promote equality. Despite these efforts, feminism is often misunderstood and is interpreted with a negative connotation. According to a study conducted by Precopio and Ramsey (2017), “feminism is commonly recognized as a movement driven to grant social, political, and economic equality to both women and men.” The participation of others besides women is crucial to the spread of equality among the genders. Furthermore, the stigma and negative feelings surrounding feminism must be reduced in order for the ideals of feminism to have a greater impact.

“You can’t do that because you're a girl”. When I was younger gender inequality would start with these certain statements that corrupted ladies and brought down their confidence into supposing they couldn't do certain things, since it was seen as a men's activity or wasn't sufficiently ladylike. Now that this is a worldwide issue our a nation has decided to pass a law were women and men are treated fairly in having equal opportunities, responsibilities and are equal regardless of their sex. This however is not the case, in society they discriminate and permit women and men to be equivalent to one another. It has been a problem for centuries all over the world.