To this day, women are treated as inferior, specifically in third world countries. Intellectually and physically men are considered to be greater than women purely because of tradition of culture. According to an article written by John Anderson, he states, "From South America to South Asia, women are often subjected to a lifetime of discrimination with little or no hope of relief. As children, they are fed less, denied education and refused hospitalization " (The Burden of Womanhood: Third World, Second Class). It is as if the only importance of a woman is to make babies, specifically boys. Other than that, they are just property. Likewise in the chapter "No Name Woman ", Kingston explains that her mother says, "We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born " (Kingston 3). Here is a perfect example of how the Chinese view women. According to Kingston's version of the situation, her aunt was raped by one of the men in the village, had an illegitimate child, which then caused her to commit suicide. Within the Chinese culture, villages are a tight-knit community, basically one big family. To the aunt's village, she went against them by having a personal life, which is considered to be completely wrong and disrespectful. However it was not the aunt's choice according to Kingston, "She obeyed him; she always did as she was told " (Kingston 6). Again, this shows how women are viewed as a piece of property. Likewise, compared to the men and women of today, there are surprising similarities. Take for example, women in the workforce. According to Dr. Peggy Drexler from the Huffington Post, a few months ago the senate Republicans denied a bill called the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would correct the issue over equal pay between men and women (Drexler 1). Unequal pay for equal work is not only discriminatory, but extremely unfair to the women earning less than men.
Equalities of the People - Aristotle vs. ... Nor was there equality among all men. ... Is this the pursuit of Happiness he is referring too? ... How can this be considered the right of Life, Liberty or the pursuit of Happiness? ... How could Jefferson speak of equality in 1776, when blacks and women did not even gain the right to vote until over 150 years later? ...
Americans are guaranteed certain rights such as life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ... Political equality is the idea that individual preferences should be given equal weight. ... One of the factors that hinders political equality is our current two party system. ... (textbook p.403) Women did not get the right to vote until 1920 with the 19th Amendment in 1920 and Native Americans were not enfranchised until 1924. A key demographic was still missing even after women, African Americans and Native Americans; young adults still did not have the right to vote. ...
Though women have yet to find perfect equality in Canada, women's movements have certainly helped to improve the quality of life for Canadian women and have given them the power to become involved in their own affairs and to achieve new goals. ... Women's movements in post-WWII Canada gave women social freedoms that allowed them to explore non-traditional women's roles. In pre-world War II Canada, the role of women in society was clearly defined and adhered to for the majority of women. ... The constitutional equality of women as well as a wave of women's movements for wome...
Is this the way we want the women of our society to be represented? These are women who are intelligent, women who have talent and who are capable of participating in society. ... Where is the equality in all of this I ask you? ... Where is the equality? ... Where is the equality? ...
The difficulty lay however in acquiring political and social equality in a world where women were nearly hopeless. But empowered by the wish for the equality of American women and the results of such equality, she organized a convention that would discuss the social, civil, religious condition and rights of women. Based on the Declaration of Independence, Stanton drew up the Declaration of Sentiments where she claimed that "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among the...
John Stuart Mills strongly advocates equality for women in his book The Subjection of Women. Among the topics he argued was the right for women to be allowed to pursuit whatever occupations they wanted regardless of their sex. ... Females are still seeking equality in the workplace and in some institutions. ... Mary Wollstonecraft in A Vindication of the rights of Women goes beyond arguing for an equal education and equality for women, but she also exposes of numerous injustice to women, including denial of the right to vote, to own property, or to perform any but the lowest jobs and paren...
The authors parallel the Declaration of Independence due to its call for equality. ... The right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are universal to human beings regardless of gender. ... In this way, Stanton an Mott feel that they have the right to denounce allegiance to the government due to its failure to protect equality. ... Since the government had turned a blind eye to their suffering, the authors urge women to denounce the it for failing to protect their rights and equality as indicated in the Declaration of Independence. ... The proposed on women suffrage was considered contr...
The right for marriage equality is a fight that has been brought to the public because of this generation's growing voice. ... But if they were two men or two women? ... Marriage equality is the distillation of America. ... Even political rights, like the right to vote and nearly all the other Constitutional rights, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ... The Constitution guarantees marriage equality, all Americans are entitled to the equal protection of law. ...