John Sween Gillibrand Women's Rights

She continuously is aiding the lives of children that are desperate need of help. Moreover, she has uplifted the divide of having only one type of skin colour present in the Senate. She has fulfilled her duties of what she desired to accomplish through her career and is a living example of how one person can affect the hundreds of thousands of lives that will change the way they see and perceive the world. She is an inspiration to many through her numerous contributions to Canada.

Senator Kamala Harris from Alabama is a democratic senator for the state of California. Prior to that, she held the role of 32nd Attorney General of California and District Attorney of San Francisco. Before her political career she served as managing attorney of the Career Criminal Unit in San Francisco and later as chief of the community and neighborhood division. Kamala Harris is also the first woman and Jamaican American to become attorney general, as well as third woman of color and 1st biracial woman elected into the senate. 1 This Howard University graduate is used to filling significant roles. She is currently serving on the Committee on Intelligence (Select), Committee on the Budget, Committee on Environment and Public Works, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.2

In her report, Veronica Loveday writes about Women’s Rights Movement, during World War two, and many restrictions women faced. Women’s rights movement in the U.S. begun in the 1960s as a reaction to the decades of unfair social and civil inequities faced by women. Over the next thirty years, feminists campaigned for equality, such as equal pay, equal work , and abortion rights. Women finally gained the right to vote with the passage of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 1920.

She worked as assistant district attorney right out of Yale until 1984, when she opened her own practice. President George H. W. Bush nominated her to the U.S. District Court for the southern District of New York in 1991and confirmation followed in 1992. In 1997, President Bill Clinton nominated her to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second District. She was confirmed in 1998. There she heard appeals in more than 3000 cases and wrote about380 opinions.

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She fought to ensure homeland security to keep our country safe and she advocates for bipartisan immigration reform that treats immigrants equally and focus on deporting those who threaten national security and make borders more secure. Her position in the House Appropriations committee has served millions of dollars to create jobs on much needed locations and transportation projects that made organizations in her district. She has been on the fight to improve the affordability of health services which led to protect the health of mothers and babies; she accomplished the local health needs that includes the infant and child care, HIV testing, Substance abuse, diabetes treatment, dental etc. she even obtain federal dollars for local education such as afterschool care, early education and magnet

She began taking the lead on her campus by becoming a Vice President in her sorority Alpha Phi. She ventured into Student Government as a Senator and took on many roles within her two years and successfully passed a spending amendment to law with the fiscal policy in the spring of 2016.

She was an active participant in her husband’s campaigns. “I made appointments for speaking, recruited speakers, answered newspaper attacks, contracted for the printing and distribution of circulars and sample ballots,” she recalled, “and more than all, kept a brave face to the foe and a smiling face to the almost exhausted candidate.” Her presence on the campaign trail—an unusual place to find a woman then—drew fire from William’s opponents. She would later recall, “I did not stop to think what a change this was for a young woman considered only an ornament and household mistress.” As William’s congressional secretary in “Washington City,” she managed her husband’s correspondence and speeches while writing columns for two local newspapers

After the civil war, she focused more on women rights. She helped Elizabeth Cady Stanton establish the American Eagle Rights Association which called for the same rights to be granted to all regardless in her efforts traveling giving speeches to convince others to support women rights to vote. In 1872 she voted illegally taking matters into her own hands she was arrested for crime, and she fought the charges but failed. In the early 1880s, she published the first volume of history of women suffrage. Several more would follow up, although it was challenging in her later years she didn’t give up on her fight for women suffrage.

She has represented the 12th district for twenty-nine years. The committees she serves are relevant to her district because San Francisco is an urban city with a majority of middle class and poor. She is responsive to her constituents because she serves under the Better Deal committee. She acknowledges that in order for San Francisco to prosper a better future is a necessity, therefore, the Better deal committee strives to “[create] millions of good-paying, full-time jobs” and “Lower the costs of living for families.” She serves a diverse population of “44% white, 30% Asian, 15% Latino, 5% Black” and knows that education is important for them to prosper.

If you know that an injustice is committed by very powerful members of Congress for inequality what would you do? This happened to Sandra Fluke said during his speech called “Women’s Rights” . Sandra Fluke is an American attorney and Women’s rights activist . On February 2012, she gave a speech called “Women’s Right’s”, which inspire people but especially women to protect their lives. She gave the speech with the purpose to share their experience in congress and support the bad treatment of women.

The day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, hundreds and thousands of women were gathered at Washington. According to the article published in Houston Chronicle

I will now introduce you to all of the famous five. The members are Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Emily Murphy. First is Nellie McClung she was a Canadian feminist, politician, author and social activist. Second is Henrietta Muir Edwards she was a Canadian woman's rights activist, and a reformer. Next is Irene Parlby, she is a Canadian woman's farm leader, activist and politician. Now there's Louise McKinney she is a provincial politician and a woman's rights activist. Finally there's Emily Murphy, she is also a woman's rights activist, she is also a jurist, and author.

Everything that she said in the video she has listed on her website. She makes it clear that her main goal is change and to fix the issues that Upstate citizens are facing. When you go to her website one of the first things you see is a paragraph about what she plans to do to help fix the state. When looking at that paragraph you should be able to see that she listed her number one priority is rebuilding the economy. This was a good comparison because unlike many legislatures you usually see their ads and websites not matching up with things they have said but Gillibrand’s is spot on and I can see that she is serious about her job and she wants to help fix what has been

In “Women’s Rights”, John Todd expresses how women possess many virtues than men do not, such as higher level of intelligence and better decision making. Nonetheless, he claims women to be weak, therefore god never intended for women to become independent from men. According to John Todd, women were built physically to be protected not to protect. Women are presented in his document, as weak and fragile possessions, whose sole purpose in life is to birth and care for others. John Todd admits women could never be equal to men given since women do not possess the resiliency that men do as a result women can never contribute to the major developments of the modern world.