Howard Zinn's Oppression Towards Women

Toward this oppression and discrimination, women were and are rebelling and raising awareness through many categories such as art, books, music, proposing laws and regulations and such. Trying their best from the place they’re in to abolish this oppression toward women shows the persistence and resistance of women. The time women had come out from the cage or the house had dated back to a long ago yet they are fighting till now to get the equal treatment with men in this 21st century. Examples of how women in history fought to obtain equal treatment from society will be presented below.
In Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States, Anne Hutchinson is mentioned for her courageous actions toward the church fathers. Anne insisted
Their actions to campaign against the tea tax should be recorded and respected and thus, Abigail wrote another letter to John about how he should not forget the attribution of ladies and be more generous toward them with laws and regulations. This is the example of women showing their abilities and defying against the oppression as they take parts in politics. Another example of career women striking against the wage cut and longer hours is given by Zinn in chapter six of his book. He explains: “In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1824, came the first known strike of women factory; 202 women joined men in protesting…. but they met separately.” This action taken by women was a big step of resisting the discrimination. The significance of women taking actions in strikes has explained in the article published by the online newspaper named “The Public”. It concludes that “The larger significance of women’s direct action in labor struggles, as in other movements for social change, has also been greater than usually acknowledged. Even when recognized that women were participants in early strikes, it has seldom been acknowledged that as the primary workforce in the textile industry, which was the model for the development of the factory system in general, women were the main pioneers of the early history of labor struggles in factory industry. When women factory workers began to “turn out” in numbers in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s, they were taking the lead in shaping the language, tactics, and symbolism of the strike as one of the major forms of action for social change.” The last example of great women taking actions would be the great female authors. Among them, the influential author is Harriett Jacobs because her fictional novel, later known as her true story, had clearly stated the oppression and the discrimination a slave women or