- 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?
They are related to being laws or policies that were implemented and fought for due to the inequalities that plagued them. What they also have in common is that those rights and amendments are still being challenged today. All three of them have in common that they are shared injustices.
Imagine if everyone supported each other, not just online sending money i mean in real time marching with them. I think that anytime there is an issue with how people are treated regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, it should be a world issue to take on . Imagine protesting as a unit for your fellow man , woman whatever you call yourself. If that were to take place (I am doubtful but still hopeful) allot more laws would either be changed or eradicated all together. Usually woman are paid less to work the same hours as a man . Unequal pay scales, maternity, the inability to vote. Add that to the fact that woman essentially are looked at beneath men.
While there has been tremendous amount of progression as far as some of the historical issues are concerned. I feel as thou I have stated previously that in some cases the original idea and energy placed into fighting these movements have become a bit of a mockery. With the original ideas or aim for a specific movements being hijacked and changed to fit a different narrative. Another issue that seems to go unnoticed is that the policies/laws only really start rolling into effect after something horrific happens .(I am not trying to be a Debbie downer I swear) As was the case in the Triangle factory fire. It was only after the deaths that the government felt it needed to respond by having policies and laws put into place. While I don’t mind seeing protests everywhere especially the larger scale ones the do not dare show on American television the injustices would cease if we were unified and everyone was fighting on the same team
I think it is true that something big has to happen for policies to change. If we remember that those in power are most often interested in maintaining the status quo, then it is also clear that in order to make a change there has to be pressure from the people and examples to point to. Even then, many times, there isn’t always change. It’s not that saying this makes you a downer, it’s a downer that this is the way it is.