Women more than half the time, have been marginalized throughout history. They were not treated fairly and lacked a number of rights. Prior to the late twentieth century, women did not have equal educational rights and were considered outliers while seeking an education or a career. Following the Suffrage Movement, the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote in the 1920s. After a long period of time, women in the 1960s believed that the first feminist movement had not been successful enough, and they launched a second wave of feminist groups calling for more workplace equality and abortion rights. Despite the passage of time, women continue to demonstrate for their right to control their own bodies and equal pay. Alongside the fact that the Women’s March Movement was inspired by the 1960s women’s rights movement, there are numerous contrasts in terms of diversity, women’s image, and aspirations.
Being that women were regarded as a reproductive organism rather than a human for many centuries. Because of their physical power and style of thinking, men were thought to be superior. Women, too, could think and be physically strong. Even if they were unhappy, women were expected to have children and obey their husbands. A simpler example that often comes into mind when actually taking into account women’s inequality and suffrage, would be embedded concepts of marriage and thoughts surrounding it. Society and men saw unmarried women as failures, they never inquired as to how married women felt. During the 1960s, married women were dissatisfied that they did not have the same social independence as their husbands. They wanted to work in the same fields as their husband and contribute to his income. Women were relegated to the status of reproductive machines rather than human beings by society. Women became connected and united as a result of their grievances.
Apart from the significant progress made by women and the existence of international standards and legal duties prohibiting discrimination, widespread gender disparity remains entrenched in global labor markets. The international labor law system, which was originally focused on a male concept of “standard” employment, is increasingly developing to include provisions for the protection of women’s work. This involves tackling the change to a new “feminized” global economy, in which women’s occupations are often precarious, poor, and low-wage, many women have no formal work at all, and women continue to face the various burdens of family and community responsibilities which can be very unmotivating at times but said circumstance don’t actually allow woman to move in an unmotivated matter because of the importance of each situation.
Hi Orvana,
You bring up great points! Throughout history women have been put down and faced with obstacles to stop their success. The last statement you made perfectly explains the importance of and reason behind suffrage, labor rights, and the equal rights amendment. Women face many burdens while having to maintain their responsibilities on top of the social issues we’re discussing. This can be very unmotivating but these issues greatly impact women’s livelihood and success. It is not an option for them not to fight for their rights and progression of equality.
Orvana,
Yes, wow, I love all of the points you brought up. Even though as women, we can feel the oppression, it still hurts to read about our gender in terms of beings seen as baby making machines instead of humans because it is so correct. As a current student at 34, I can’t imagine not having been able to make this decision of returning to school at whatever age I please so I feel for the women of these times that longed for opportunities like this and couldn’t experience them. That feeling of knowing that you’re capable of the majority of things that the male counterpart is supposedly better at and not even be able to try and prove yourself had to be enough of a feeling for all of these causes to start their engines.
Hi Orvana,
As the beginning, of your discussion, you mentioned in it that “Women more than half the time, have been marginalized throughout history.” I agree with you and yes you can find multiple examples from the past or even the recent one as vaccine’s side effect-like women are facing and suffering more of the vaccine’s side effect after they are vaccinated. In this case women are not being treated as equal as men and women’s experience or body reaction wasn’t being considered well enough.