- How are suffrage, labor rights, and the equal rights amendment related?
- How/why are labor rights also issues of gender justice?
- How do you see these historical issues enacted in today’s society?
Suffrage, labor rights and equal rights are all related because it was young females who have experienced that, why because back then a women couldn’t work. Once females started working it was low paid jobs and the working conditions were terrible that’s where suffrage comes in. A perfect example was The sweat shops were made up by young immigrant woman about 500 of them all together, they would work long hours and at low wages with unsafe conditions. On march 11 when the factory light up on fire there was no way of turning it down and the elevator could only make 4 rides before it stopped working. A lot of females died.
Triangle shirtwaists factory led to the ILGWU (international ladies garment workers union. NYC put then a law that would make sprinklers to be installed at all factories which benefit and helped the state and national workplaces
Gender justice come to play because females were never supposed to work just be a stay at home mom if it wasn’t for women fighting and making the movement to earn a spot in the work industry. It had to be obvious that men were going to make women suffer that why they give them the job with the lowest pay and with no good working conditions. A lot of females and kids died because of the chemicals they were around because of the amount of hours they were working.
In todays society it can still be seen in those countries that are in need of money, there’s a lot of Americans that go to India to get merchandise, they gather groups of females to work for them. Indian females spend long hours in s sewing machine and Americans would pay them 10 dollars. These America would then sell the merchandise here for $60, the Americans would go back to India and even try to bargain Indians for a lower price. This is seen not just India but in other places where its children working for long hours and a low pay.
