Women 's Rights Of Women

Kate Chopin is known for being criticized for empowering the subject of female sexuality and independence. In Chopin’s short story, “The Story of an Hour”, it is placed in a time where men were known as being the head of the household while women were only in charge of raising the children and caring for the home. In the 1890s, women didn’t have so much power to themselves compared to today’s society where female empowerment is frequently encouraged. Chopin’s story narrates a sequence of Mrs. Mallard’s emotions that goes within the motion of the story. As she overcomes the sudden death of her husband, her emotion of grief soon turns into the sudden feeling of freedom, later on emerging into a strong independent woman.

Women’s suffrage has stretched from the 1800’s to present day, as women have struggled to have the same civil and constitutional rights as men in politics and be appreciated as equals in the workforce. Groups of women known as suffragists questioned the customary views of women’s roles. Eventually our nation has evolved and realized that male-controlled societies suppress women’s rights. From the beginning steps taken in 1850 to 2013 with women earning combat roles in the military, women’s roles to society, their work ethic, and progressively public aptitude, as a whole should be allowed the right to vote, help the country grow economically, politically, and have the overall rights equal to those of men.

People have been fighting for rights for many years now, from women to men, from blacks to whites, from animal cruelty, and the list goes on forever. At time the struggle of women’s rights extended way beyond what some may think. Women wanted the right to own property or get the chance to vote. Women had to fight for their individual right and to secure an education and the women had to plan their families and control their lives.

Since the middle of the nineteenth century, women in America have been striving to obtain rights equal to that of men. Before that time, women were viewed as physically, as well as mentally, inferior to men. Men had the upper hand, in all walks of life, including the workplace and at home. Obtaining equality among men has proven to be a difficult uphill battle for women, but, by the mid-1800 's, women began to see the fruits of their labors. It all began on July 19, 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Hunt, Martha Coffin Wright, Lucretia Mott and Mary Ann McClintock organized a convention in Seneca Falls, New York. This convention marked the first organized women 's movement in the United States of America. At the time, the rights of

In today’s society women have acquired more rights than they have had in years. Women now have the ability to do so many things that they couldn’t before, things that they had to fight for such as voting, working outside the home, making family decisions and so much more. This is a constant battle though because there are many people that constantly fight against women’s rights including lawmakers who would like to see their rights suppressed again in the form of child bearing and what jobs are available to women. Women still suffer from unequal pay in the workforce which accounts for a portion of the poverty rate in America. According to http://www.iwpr.org in 2014 women made approximately 79 percent of the wages that men did, equaling a 21 percent pay gap. When you account for the fact that many of these women are single parents supporting a family with no help, you might ask yourself how this is even ethical or right in a society such as ours. According to Utilitarianism we must do what produces the best results for the greatest amount of people. (Mosser, 2013) Since women account for a little over half of the population in the U.S, assuring that they are treated equally and fairly seems like what is in the best interest of the greatest amount of people.

Throughout history, women have been identified as pale reflections of men or as their opposite, characterized through perceived differences from men and subordinated because of them. From the emotional stereotype, housewife status, lower pay in the workforce, to sexual abuse and more, women have suffered it all. However, Kate Chopin used a prevailing theme to symbolize the core of what women have been deprived of most, a personal right of self-assertion. In the short story “The Story of An Hour” the theme of self- assertion is expressed through Mrs. Mallard’s struggle for her selfhood in a patriarchal society, her feeling of confinement in her marriage and the death of her husband.

Author Kate Chopin is famous for some of the most influential feminist stories and novels in the Western canon. “The Story of an Hour” is one such text. In this story, Chopin tackles many of the concerns that are essential to feminism, including the willpower and expression of a woman’s distinctive identity separate from the identity of her husband and the right of a woman to identify and experience her own interests. While there is an aspect of this story that is provocative, namely, that Mrs. Mallard feels excited after learning that her husband has died, the reader can empathize with Mrs. Mallard’s feelings and support her.

Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour strikes me as a very feminist short story in the way that the text tells of a woman, Mrs. Mallard, whom through her sister, and a friend of her husband’s, hears of her husband's accidental death by railroad accident. Mrs. Mallard shows her grief openly as she is expected to, however, upon reflection in seclusion with proper thought to her new found situation and in her private analysis concludes that while she loved her husband in a way considered at the time an acceptable level for a marriage, she was treated as owned property with no real identity of her own as shown by the author's avoidance of the use of her first name until toward the conclusion of the story after her eventual acceptance and jubilation

Throughout very early American life, the roles of women were to promptly overcome the pressure to marry, and strictly uphold the standards of homemaking and motherhood. Women eventually began to diverge from the traditional roles of their previous female ancestors when tension became the norm with common experience in love, marriage, religion, independence, and family relations.

Throughout hundreds of years, women have experienced inequalities by society and by the law. Mostly, women were treated differently from men. The women in America during the late 1800’s were treated unequally to men because they couldn’t vote, they had no job opportunities, and they were controlled in marriage.

From women being granted the right to vote in the 19th amendment, to the steadily increasing number of women in the workforce, great strides have been made for women in the United States to have the same rights and opportunities as men. While many things have been achieved over the years, challenges still remain for women in today’s workplace such as the maternity protection, sexism, and sexual harassment.

August 18th, 1920 the 19th Amendment was passed and women gained the right to vote. In 2013, the U.S officially lifted the ban on female soldiers, allowing them to participate in combat alongside men. If Wollstonecraft were alive today she would still be disappointed in society, women have a come a long way, but are still valued more for their beauty than for their brains. Although, women have more power in the workforce and more men can be found running their homes, women still must fight to prove that they are more than just a pretty face.

Before choosing sides on a controversial topic, an accurate and truthful definition of said topic should be clearly stated. According to Cambridge Dictionary, feminism is defined as an organized effort to give women the same economic, social, and political rights as men. From the beginning of time, the role and status of women throughout the world, in all societies, cultures and countries, have been that of absolute inequality. In short, women have suffered greatly because of this disparity. However, there have been streams of women throughout history who have sought to overcome this terrible burden and have made significant contributions to the rise of women’s rights. Many people today believe that the equality of women to men is no longer an issue but there are still those who feel that we are far from an equal state. I believe that while elements of discrimination still exist, women today are generally no longer bound or constrained by the weight of inequality.

Women all over the world are being treated different than men. Iran is one of the places that women are being treated the worst. From restrictions to punishments, women in Iran are being treated with no respect, and that is not okay. Women’s rights activists have tried to get it to change, and have traveled to many places to try and get more people to join their movement.

Nowadays, it is easier for women to get jobs than in the past due to the equality between men and women. However, in the some situations, women need to give up their jobs even though they would like to continue their jobs. Particularly, one of the general reasons of women’s retirements is child-care leave. When they are pregnant, they should leave from their work to prepare to give a birth. It is fact that most women have the responsibility to take care of their family including children. That is because women would like to support directly rather than financially. In other words, women set a higher value on taking care of their family members than working.