Q: "Women seeking to end slavery, to attack the evils of alcohol abuse, and to improve the plight of prostitutes found themselves excluded from male reform organizations and attacked for involving themselves in concerns outside the home. A distinctive woman's rights movement began when woman reformers recognized that they had to work for their own rights before they could be effective in other reforms."
Q: Today many woman's rights activists are fighting to end the same problems. Do you think that in this day and age women are still having to fight for their own rights before they can be heard by other voices or do they now have the ability to fight for women's rights as a whole?
I feel like in todays generation women have the perception of because bitter for wanting to actually continue to fight for their rights, which I think is absurd. I feel like women are more open and free to express their thoughts and emotions on what they believe is right or wrong, but there will always be back lash and ridicule by men and women themselves by believing that these women who want to advocate for women's rights are just being bitter about history.
ReplyDeleteI believe things have changed in the course of women's history; there has been progress when it comes to being able to fight for their rights. They are not as silenced as before. Nevertheless, they still have to fight to be completely heard. Many others still live in that mentality that women aren't as powerful as men, therefore ignore them or don't look up to them; don't think they are as capable to do certain things, let alone lead a movement or make a change. So they definitely do still fight to prove them wrong, so they are taken as seriously as men.
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