Melanie Velez , Discussion 8

The women’s suffrage, labour rights, and the equal rights amendment are all equal because they all include giving equality to women in some way shape or form. The women’s suffrage was to give women the right to vote in any election whether it be local or national. Women found it unfair that they had no say in elections happening in the country they live in. They fought to have representation and a voice. Labour rights for women meant giving women equal pay for equal work. This meant that they wanted to be paid fairly for the work they produced because many of them was getting severely underpaid for the gruesome hours they worked. Labour rights also meant giving them regular working hours as well as providing them safe working environments. Lastly it also meant giving women equal rights to jobs that men also worked. Equal rights amendment (era) is a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This would invalidate many state and federal laws that discriminate against women. It would help eliminate the factor of sex when determining legal rights of women or men. All these relate because they deny someone , mainly women , from a right. It is crazy to think how not so long ago women have been given rights however some states still discriminate against women. Labour rights are also an issue of gender because a lot of women were being told to work eleven to twelve hours a day and got severely underpaid. This became a gender issue because a lot of women were denied similar jobs like men. In some places around the world it is more common to put women in sweatshops. These issues can be seen in todays society by big corporations. A lot of todays corporations decide to do their labour work out of the united states and in different countries to avoid regulations and well as be able to pay less. A lot of these countries that they are demanding work from don’t give their workers the same rights in a workplace that America does. Also in some of these countries they shove women in these sweatshops to mass produce for penny pay. However a lot of these places just have problems with rights as a whole. They abuse child labour and abuse workers in general because a lot of these work places are hazardous. Places like this can just continue repeating history with continuous incidents that can end up taking the workers lives.

3 thoughts on “Melanie Velez , Discussion 8

  1. Shanice Peters

    Hi Melanie, I agree that foreign countries will suffer the consequences if they don’t have proper work conditions. Third World countries today are working and even worse conditions than the woman in the triangle shirt waist factory day. That scares me honestly to say the least because the triangle factory was a devastating disaster. And the fact that these working conditions still exist today is outrageous to me.

  2. Samantha Rojas

    Hi Melanie,

    I enjoyed your explanation on how suffrage, labor rights, and the equal rights amendments are all related. Your comparison between women in sweatshops overseas and what we can see in our own country’s corporations denying women equal pay was a good point. Although women working in corporations in this country do not suffer in the same way, women as a whole in many parts of the world continue to be discriminated against. Although it is increasingly frustrating, we can only hope that these issues can be solved in the near future.

  3. Dariany Delrosario

    Hey Melanie,
    I actually continued to think about grown adults in the workplace due to the fact that we have an age requirement here in the U.S to work and completely neglected the fact that children are not exempt from the injustice that comes with labor laws, or lack thereof. Thank you for mentioning that to me. I could not imagine my nieces and nephews fighting for their lives for a couple of cents an hour while their bosses sat on their behinds becoming rich. It is so sad what people will do for money, but it is us, as a whole, that have placed that importance on the dollar.

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