Feminism And The Fight For Women
Feminism is equality. Feminism is women and men on an identical playing field. Feminism, to me, is the right and the fight for women to be equal to men. Feminism is mostly acknowledged as an ideology, but it is incorporating these ideologies into one 's lifestyle that will facilitate a change. One does not just think feminism, one is feminism. I believe that through feminism, through women acknowledging the issues, putting in the effort to ignite change, and uniting as one regardless of race or class, there may actually be a chance for this revolution to occur.
In a world dominated by men there is a strong need for women to come together and to fight to have the same rights that men have. Feminism is a unified front of women. This unity should …show more content…
It has been a fact for many years that women, on average, working the same job as men, do not receive the same salary that the men do. According to Christine E. Bose and Rachel Bridges Whaley in their article Sex Segregation in the U.S. Labor Force, "...women earn an average of 74 cents for every man 's dollar (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1999) (2001, p. 206)." Women 's wages have been lower than men 's wages for quite some time now. In Alice Kessler-Harris ' piece The Wage Conceived: Value and Need as Measures of a Woman 's Worth she notes that in the late nineteenth century, "Women...were to be paid only according to their most minimal needs" because, according to John Ryan, an advocate for lower wages for women, "it [was] possible for [women]...to keep alive upon less (1990, p. 187)." One of the initial reasons for lower pay was that women 's wages were thought "...to ensure attachment to family. The male wage, in contrast, provided incentives to individual achievement. It promoted geographical mobility and sometimes hinted at the possibility of social mobility as well. The female wage allowed women to survive; the male wage suggested a contribution to national economic well being" (Kessler-Harris 1990, p. 191). Women deserve the same pay as men. There is no reason that a woman should work the same job as a man and receive three-fourths what the man receives in salary. Without equal pay there remains an imbalance of power between the sexes. Evening out that scale will allow both sexes to stand on equal ground. As history has illustrated, the inequality will continue until women stand up and fight for these rights. Feminism is seeing one-sidedness in a male versus female issue, and acknowledging it. Feminism is never ignoring the important topics but making a conscious effort to address them in hopes of
In a world dominated by men there is a strong need for women to come together and to fight to have the same rights that men have. Feminism is a unified front of women. This unity should …show more content…
It has been a fact for many years that women, on average, working the same job as men, do not receive the same salary that the men do. According to Christine E. Bose and Rachel Bridges Whaley in their article Sex Segregation in the U.S. Labor Force, "...women earn an average of 74 cents for every man 's dollar (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1999) (2001, p. 206)." Women 's wages have been lower than men 's wages for quite some time now. In Alice Kessler-Harris ' piece The Wage Conceived: Value and Need as Measures of a Woman 's Worth she notes that in the late nineteenth century, "Women...were to be paid only according to their most minimal needs" because, according to John Ryan, an advocate for lower wages for women, "it [was] possible for [women]...to keep alive upon less (1990, p. 187)." One of the initial reasons for lower pay was that women 's wages were thought "...to ensure attachment to family. The male wage, in contrast, provided incentives to individual achievement. It promoted geographical mobility and sometimes hinted at the possibility of social mobility as well. The female wage allowed women to survive; the male wage suggested a contribution to national economic well being" (Kessler-Harris 1990, p. 191). Women deserve the same pay as men. There is no reason that a woman should work the same job as a man and receive three-fourths what the man receives in salary. Without equal pay there remains an imbalance of power between the sexes. Evening out that scale will allow both sexes to stand on equal ground. As history has illustrated, the inequality will continue until women stand up and fight for these rights. Feminism is seeing one-sidedness in a male versus female issue, and acknowledging it. Feminism is never ignoring the important topics but making a conscious effort to address them in hopes of