Gender Inequality In The Family

Women have been active since the beginning of the early 1800’s and struggle until today’s day, to fight for equality. There were two women movement waves. The first wave was focused on the equality of the women by working on voting rights. The second wave from 1963 to 1982 concentrated on social issues. As in “Collective Action for Social Change”, Aaron Schutz and Marie Sandy stated in their book “women were tired of being second class citizens”. The civil rights movement spillover inspired women to create social movements by acting and building organizations focused on the issues that affected the women. The social issues were child care, domestic violence, contraception, and women’s health. One of the major topics that the feminists focused on was domestic violence that still exists in today’s day worldwide.

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.

Women’s rights have evolved over time; beginning with being homemakers and evolving to obtaining professions, acquiring an education, and gaining the right to vote. The movement that created all these revolutionary changes was called the feminist movement. The feminist movement occurred in the twentieth century. Many people are not aware of the purpose of the feminist movement. The movement was political and social and it sought to set up equality for women. Women’s groups in the United States worked together to win women’s suffrage and later to create and support the Equal Rights Amendment. The economic boom between 1917 and the early 1960s brought many American women into the workplace. As women began to join

Women filled these positions and did a great job doing work that had only been done by men up to that point. When the war ended, women were forced out of their jobs so that the men could take them back. “Wartime polls showed that between 60 and 80 percent of these women wanted to keep their jobs when the war ended” (Pg. 882). Women were then treated like they were helping during the Cold War by staying home and taking care of the family. The pressure to be the “perfect housewife” was made worse by popular television shows that celebrated “traditional families” or “nuclear families” during a time when more and more women were going off to college and working outside the home (Pg 924). Advertisement for new appliances to make life easier targeted women because they got to “at least exercised authority over many household purchases” while the men worked and earned money, at times really far away from home. By the time the 1960s rolled around, women were “demanding equality in both public and private life” (Pg. 963). Women were starting to realize that the family dynamic was not always what the media portrayed it to be so they changed their attitudes toward marriage and divorce. New feminism became main objective when it came to activism. Women led marches and rallies for gender discrimination. The main goal was to pass an Equal Rights Amendment. Unfortunately, numerous Latinas and African American women considered the push for women’s rights a white middle-class movement. Even though the Equal Rights Amendment did not go through for countless years, women advanced in education and the workplace. During the 1970s and 1980s, courts started to strike “down numerous statutes and regulations that limited women’s rights to property, employment, and reproductive choices” (Pg. 964). Women held about half the jobs in the 1990s and moved into higher professions, including law, medicine, accounting, and higher

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) reports that millions of children around the world are imprisoned daily into illegal child labor, depriving them of their childhood. The conditions of the work facilities are often life threating to their health. Instead of getting an education, these suffering children are working. Without an education, they really have no chance of escaping poverty. If you are thinking this only happens in poor countries, you are mistaken. It happens everywhere, including the United States. There are an estimated 50,000 children slaves in the United States. We can all agree this is horrific. In “The Color of Family Ties: Race, Class, Gender and Extended Family involvement”, Sociologist Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkistan challenge popular notion that minority families have weaker ties and are more fragmented than white families. They find if we only focus on nuclear families, thus ignoring extended families, it creates a biased portrait of families of color. Furthermore, we are missing much of what minority and families of color do for one another. According to their research, the second wave of the National Survey of Families and Households contests stereotypes that Black and Latin families lack strong family’s ties. Most importantly they find social class is more relevant in revealing statistics than ethnicity. Their research also reveals Blacks and Latinos/as typically have less income and education than whites, so they rely more on their family for day-to-day needs: such as childcare, household task or rides. Furth more, Economic deprivation of minorities leads in many ways to higher levels of extended family involvement. The tendency of minorities to live near kin may also reflect their greater need for kin cooperation as well as decreased opportunity’s and pressure to move away, including moving for college. Because Whites tend to have more income than Blacks and Latins, they are more likely to give or receives money to/from family. They find races with the same amount of income have similar involvement with their extended families. Middles class families are more probable to share their private concerns and lend money to relative

The first wave of the feminist movement major achievement was securing the right to vote, yet were not able to fully succeed in their campaign for liberty and equality, because of the Great Depression and the Second World War. In the 1940s, women gained increasing employment as men left overseas to fight in the war. After the war women were expected to surrender their jobs to the returning men from the war consequently, trigger for the second wave feminist movement. The men who came back and retook their old jobs from women who were doing the same jobs during the war were given higher salaries, further highlighting inequality in the workforce. World War II showed that women could break out of their gender roles as was required yet, in the 1950s women were still searching for ways to end their domestic servitude and to see an end of socialized images of household chores as “women’s work.” And not to try to achieve the “June Cleaver ideal” that society demanded. Furthermore, wives were stuck in the suburbs without any personal transportation, living in a domestic life that suppress them while their husband went to work interacting in the workforce in the city. The organizations from The Second Wave Feminist Movement were formed to change the way women viewed

Although much has changed, feminists, regardless of which wave or gender they claim to belong to, still fight for the equality of women everywhere. From the 19th century to the 21st, feminism has helped shape western society. From the first wave, granting women the right to vote to the second wave were oral contraceptives were made available to women, to the third wave which help give women different colors, cultures, nationalities, and ethnicities a voice to be

For example, back then being a police officer was thought to be a man 's job. Nowadays, one can see a woman entering different fields of occupation like in law, carpentry, medicine and sports. This proves that women have as equal rights as men. The most influential and raging wave was the second and it started in the 60s (The Feminist Movement). As America came out of its depression in the 30s and entered WWII women were urged to join the labor force, taking the place of men, and support the war effort. “More than six million women worked outside the home for the first time, as wartime propaganda support and for the men of their country” (Kryger). The very iconic image of Rosie the Riveter comes to mind immediately. She stood for women everywhere taking jobs originally only thought to be for men. After the war ended and men returned home women as a whole were expected to return to the kitchen. Many women were fired. Although, many women returned to the title of housewife willingly, others refused (Kryger). It caused a wave of women’s voices screaming for equality. The 60s and 70s wave’s main goals were equality in the work place, affirmative action, and reproductive rights (Napikoski). “Many anti-feminists criticized women for working, claiming that they lead to the breakdown of their families and furthermore the breakdown of society” (Kryger). Women began creating meeting places

The feminist movement in the United States began in the early 1960s and was divided into three different waves of women’s fight for equality. The first wave was organized to focus on women’s suffrage which included women’s right to vote but also sparked much controversy in the household and had many women questioning their roles in society as full time caregivers or as the good old “housewife.” Causing the second wave of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This wave was known as “The Women’s Movement.” The second wave focused on family structure and gender equalities in the household. During these

One of the many changes facing American families is the changing role that family members play within their household. For example, mothers are more frequently working outside of their home, as well as doing household duties. As this may seem like an added responsibility, many benefits arise. Families may be able to afford a bigger home possibly in a safer community. Fathers are becoming more flexible in their gender roles and step up more in the lives of their children. Over time, this flexibility in gender roles opens the door to a better and more diverse family structure.

Using Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy, feminism is defined as "...both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and the end of sexism in all forms. " It is important to note that there are several definitions that feminism covers with arguments being made of what sexism consists of and the measures needed to be taken. However it can be generally agreed that it stands as a belief "...motivated by the quest for social justice, feminist inquiry [that] provides a wide range of perspectives on social, cultural, economic, and political phenomena." Now the feminism wave model consists of three waves. The first wave feminism began in the mid 19th century up until the 19th amendment where women were fighting for basic political rights. During the 1960's to 1970's, second wave feminism occurred as a fight for greater equality across areas such as education, work, and at home. And from the 2000s to today, the third wave of feminism is the fight for a greater importance in identity. This is largely a bigger focus on the interconnected features including race, religion, nationality, and gender. These views are what stands out the most as feminists continue to put more emphasis and recognition of intersectional feminism. With that, gender equality can further expand so that women can be given

Late 1906s and early 70s was the next wave in the feminist movement. Taking social views and gender roles head on. The role of women was being redefined within America. After en forcing women to be domestic, the stigma of a woman in the workplace was being pushed. During the 1960s, women were determined to seek equal opportunities, in pay and work within society. Women began to speak out and be respected as they challenged traditions. Finally in the 1980s, the biggest battles were won. Women were accepted into colleges and in the workplace, all of which were reflected in media.

The First Wave of Feminism initially targeted at getting equal rights of property and child however by the end of the nineteenth century, it started focusing on issues like

The idea of women being equal to men has been debated for a very long time. Even when civilizations were just starting, most women were treated very differently from men. When women started fighting against this oppression they were called feminists. Feminism can be separated into three waves. The first wave of feminism was from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s. The second wave was from the 1960s to the 1980s. The third wave of feminism started in the 1990s, but its end is unclear. Some people believe it has ended and the fourth wave of feminism has started, but others believe it continues today. The different waves have been very different in some aspects, but very similar in others. The main differences between the first and third wave of feminism are what they fought for, how they protested, and society’s reaction to their cause.

As we are all birth equally throughout the world, there is still contingency that causes a barrier between human kinds. What barriers are we talking about that can’t be changed through our DNA? That is our gender. When each of us are born into the world, we are labeled as male or female due to our genetical DNA and different types of organs (WHO). Yet, society still isn’t as balance enough and there are still so much discrimination in gender in even today’s society.