“Women’s Rights.” Opposing viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2018
Delainey Saxon --
Summary:
In this article by “Gale”, it speaks on the history, and the future of women’s rights as a whole. Gale touches on how the US women’s rights movement did not begin until the middle of the nineteenth century. That women historians of America have been working towards greater autonomy. A woman named Anne Hutchison argued years ago about the voice of religions opinions. A woman, was fighting for her rights to speak religiously about her own thoughts and beliefs. The fight for women’s rights was even further shaped by the Declaration of Independence since it states that “all men are created equal…”, some women look at this and fought for something a nation was trying to believe in, when they could not make it correct in society. The article states, “Movement for the equal rights of women in the United States have been shaped in response to a system of patriarchal social norms and laws that, according to historians and social scientists, form the basis of American cultural, political, and economic life” (GALE). The article continues and focus on “Economic Independence”, “Bodily and Sexual Autonomy”, and “Political Participation and Women’s Leadership”. Each of these sections have been affected by women in the up most negative way since the American society of living in a “man’s” world has come true. Meaning, people want to live the “American Dream”, but that is very hard when American Women cannot even get the respect that they have earned day-in-and-day-out.
Response:
My personal response on this article is that GALE speaks truth. The article does not speak by opinion, it speaks by truth and pulls historical background from what has happened in the past to bringing it up again and showing the audience what could happen if things do not change. This article was a very good read because of the facts and knowledge it lays out for readers. Not only does it encourage women to fight for their rights on gender roles and economic status, but it also gives them a positive boost because we, as women in America, have not had something positive in a while. I do believe that our society is changing more, companies now want to have more “diversity”. College and other schools or jobs in big law firms want to have diversity as they hire people or let people into the college itself. Women have fought for years for different things in our society, but at the end of the day, the people stand against them are others that have stubborn minds and do not want to see things a different way. People do not like change, we know this because the historical facts in our past show us. This just tells us that the people who do not like change, need to learn how to accept what is happening and move on from it. Change happens all the time, some people just do not like to see it happen.
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