Suffrage, labor rights and the equal rights ammendment are related. Suffrage is the right to vote in political elections. Labor rights, often known as workers’ rights, are legal and human rights that pertain to labor relations between employees and employers. These rights are established in both domestic and international labor and employment legislation. In general, these rights have an impact on working conditions in employment environment.The Equal Rights Amendment is a constitutional amendment to the United States Constitution that would ensure that all American citizens, regardless of gender, have equal legal rights. In my opinion they all have something in common and that is that is some kind of right for the people, even though they’re different they all tie together and are similar.Labor rights have to do with working conditions, child labor and also discrimination is part of that too. Gender equality, is the process of gaining equal access to resources and opportunities, including economic empowerment and decision-making, regardless of gender; and the state of equally valuing different behaviors, aspirations, and needs, regardless of gender.Gender justice is ending the inequalities between women and men that was built in our society.That also includes unequal treatment, including privilege and priority, on the basis of gender. In today’s society equalities and equal rights is still an issue since I work in a retail store I can speak a little bit on it. when it comes to equal rights we as workers don’t have the same rights as managers. Sometimes there is a bit of discrimination. There’s also favoritism at my work place. The only difference from back in the day’s society with today’s society is you can speak up and have justice and change the issue. But back in the day you would have to protest and fight for your rights. In the video “Triangle returns” that’s an example of labor rights this was a tragedy due to that work places can no longer have exits blocked and many more safety precautions. Also over working workers is part of being able to have labor rights, working 6 days a week and only having one day off isn’t right. Minimum wage is also a part of the issue.

This week I gained an understanding of the history of feminism and what it means. Feminism began in the early 19th and 20th century. During that time feminism started with the legal inequalities, and the women suffrage. Now between 1960s to 1980s feminism consisted of debates to include cultural inequalities and most importantly what role did the women have in their society during that time period. The second wave of feminist where basically in a battle with the third wave of feminist because they had different perspective of things. The second wave wanted to have equal rights and for discrimination to stop. Throughout the years us women did not have a say in anything, we didn’t have equal rights. We weren’t able to vote. We had to be at home cleaning taking care of our husbands and of the children, we didn’t have the right to get a job or to vote. During these times besides feminism there was also a mixture of racism too.

Patriarchy is a socially constructed system in which men have primary power. It affects many aspects of life from political leadership, business management, religious institutions, economic systems and property to the family home where the man is considered the head of the family.It is critical to understand patriarchy as a system rather than an individual, because it is both a person’s and a system’s identity. “Blaming everything on the system’ strikes a chord with many individuals, but it also touches upon a fundamental misunderstanding of social interaction,” writes Allan G. Johnson in “Patriarchy, System.” According to Johnson, patriarchy is frequently blamed on society. The patriarchy is a part of something bigger than we are. If we choose to see patriarchy as Jasmine being condescending to women, we won’t see the system as the way the wires don’t belong to me, according to Johnson. Social media, TV shows, porn, movies, video games, books, magazines, and other media are all mine. Patriarchal culture, according to Johnson, is “how social life is and should be, about what is expected of individuals and how they feel, how they are expected to look and behave.” Being a woman, particularly in today’s society, entails a lot of criticism. We are judged on our ability to achieve the standards that have been set for us, and if we fail to do so, our social value decreases a few points. By simply being, we are subjected to structural and cultural oppression. However, if you are a specific gender or ethnicity, you may not have anything to be concerned about due to privileges you may or may not be aware of. We present ourselves in a certain way, and we present ourselves in a certain way.The way we think, the color of our skin, and other factors all have significant consequences. We enact patriarchy in a variety of ways, even if we aren’t aware of it. All layers of oppression we encounter in our daily lives are our feelings, ideas, practices, and organizations.When I consider how many times I’ve heard “Well, I blame the system,” I understand that by blaming others, we are attempting to make ourselves feel better since, in the end, we are all participants in the system. We have all played a part in the formation of this social structure, both knowingly and unconsciously, but we had no choice because we were born into it. It is crucial to understand patriarchy as a system rather than an individual because I feel that we, as a society, must take responsibility for changing it. We’ve seen how it can change on a regular basis, so why not band together as a system and create a world?

In my 20 years of living I haven’t experienced much of being privileged. I lived my first 5 years of life living in poverty in the Dominican Republic with my mom. We lived in a small little room, we had to share the bathroom with our neighbors. The shower outside in the yard we also had to share it. It’s very hard for women to get jobs in the Dominican Republic. Coming to the untied states gave me more opportunities to become successful. I can agree with white privilege. The word Privilege means to me Someone who has an advantage or opportunity that most that most people don’t have. I started experiencing privilege when I was in New York in school I was given free lunch, I didn’t have to pay for books. I was able to experience a lot of things here for example finding a job at my job was pretty easy. There’s opportunities to get into very good colleges based on your grades and not your money.Privilege describes the advantages that people belong to because they belong to a specific social group or have certain dimensions of their identity. You may have privileges because of your race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, wealth, and social class, among many other characteristics. Being able to travel the world, go out to eat, do activities you weren’t able to do before is a privilege. I didn’t know what the word oppression meant until I read about it. Oppression is the malicious or unequal treatment or exercise of power, often under the guise of governmental authority or cultural stigma. Oppression is seen in seen in school, racial profiling and overly harsh school discipline policies disproportionately impact students of color and fuel the pipeline from school to prison. Educational differences hinder access to high quality learning environments for many students of color. Watching the video and doing the readings helped me define the concepts of privilege and oppression, oppression is the exercise of authority of power in a cruel, burdensom, or unjust manner and privilege is unearned advantages people have by virtue of status or position. An example of privilege is the adviser to the president holds a privileged position of trust. He had privileged access to the files. Only a select few can join the club. An example of oppression is the oppression of minorities in our country is terrible. The root of oppression and tyranny is often a corrupt and power-hungry ruler. Neither oppression on the one hand, nor servility on the other hand explained this abandonment of their traditions.

To Alok Vaid-Menon moving  move beyond the gender binary mean that gender identities and expressions, but also states that there is nothing wrong with existence outside of the gender binary. This invalidates their identity and prevents them from getting the best possible medical care. Alok uses the word Cisgender a lot through out the book and his definition for it is that a person’s gender identity matches the male or female sex listed on the original birth certificate. Gender fluidity refers to the change over time in a person’s gender expression or identity, or both. This change can be of expression, but not of identity, or of identity, but not of expression. Or expression and identity can change together. Gender identification and the need for closure were associated with binary gender/gender beliefs, prejudice against non-binary people and opposition to the use of gender neutral pronouns. Policies aimed at eliminating gender/gender categories, but not policies advocating a third gender/gender category, were considered particularly unfair among those with strong gender identification. These findings are an important step in understanding the psychology of resistance to change around gender/sex binary systems.Gender attributions create a story about how a person should behave, what they are allowed to wear or wear, and how they express themselves. The punishment for nonconformity leads to an inextricable link between gender and shame. Vaid-Menon challenges well-known arguments against gender inequality and divides them into four categories: dismissal, impropriety, biology, and the slippery slope (fear of the consequences of acceptance). Bold headings provide an accessible navigation experience from scan to scan. The prose maintains a conversational tone that feels as intimate and vulnerable as talking to a best friend. At the same time, the author’s twists in moments of deep insight resonate with precision and poetry. In a reflection, they write: “The deadliest part of the human body is not the fist; is the eye What people see and how people see it has a lot to do with power”. Although this short essay speaks honestly about pain and injustice, it ends with encouragement and an invitation to a future that celebrates transformation. To binary people we can be respectful supporting and respecting non-binary people isn’t as hard as you think, even if you’re just getting to know them.You don’t need to understand what it means for someone to be non-binary to respect it. Some people haven’t heard much about non-binary genders or have a hard time understanding them, and that’s okay. But identities that some people don’t understand still deserve respect.Use whatever name someone asks you to use. This is one of the most critical aspects of respecting a non-binary person, as the name you use may not reflect their gender identity. Don’t ask anyone what his old name was.Try not to make assumptions about people’s genders. You can’t tell if someone is non-binary just by looking at them, just like you can’t tell if someone is transgender just by their looks.

When I was reading the essay ” Feminist Politics Where We Stand” Belle Hooks defined feminism as “a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression” this definition that the author gave means that the movement is not about anti male, the major problem here is sexism they just didn’t want to have equal rights to men they wanted for the neglect towards women to stop. The word feminism means ” the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes”. Besides the sexism there was also racism. The quote the author stated was “Early on most feminist activists (a majority of whom were white) had their consciousness raised about the nature of male domination when they were working in anti-classist and anti-racist settings with men who were telling the world about the importance of freedom while subordinating the women in their ranks.” So black women did have much support in this movement. But black women were working towards civil rights and black liberation and Native American women were fighting for indigenous rights. This definition compares to what I thought feminism meant but it was similar because I originally thought feminism meant women who were fighting to have equal rights to men but thats not the full definition it’s part of it. When I was reading ” Sex Gender 101″ I had the same definition as everyone else did about gender. The definition for gender is either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female. Their definition of gender is Men have XY chromosomes and that develops to the male sex hormones, the testosterone, and male reproductive organs like the testes and penis. Puberty for men develops secondary sex characteristics such as facial, pubic and body hair and a deeper voice. For us females we have XX chromosomes, this develops the female sex hormones for example estrogen, and female reproductive organs like the ovaries, uterus, and vagina. Puberty for women is a bit similar to puberty for men, we have secondary sex characteristics such as breast development, pubic and body hair and wider hips. People have one mentally about gender, but “Gender refers to the social and cultural roles that males and females are expected to subscribe to based on their biological sex”. But my point of view has changed for both definitions of gender and feminism.