By definition FEMINISM is:
1.Belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.
2.The movement organized around this belief.
So, a FEMINIST is considered a person whose beliefs and behavior are based on feminism. Seems simple and straightforward right? WRONG! The feminist movement was and is not simple. Following the civil rights movement - the women came storming in - bra-less and all. What started out as a movement demanding equal rights among the sexes continues to be just that.
The feminist movement has effected change in Western society, including women's suffrage; greater access to education; more nearly equitable pay with men; the right to initiate divorce proceedings and "no fault" divorce; and the right of women to make individual decisions regarding pregnancy (including access to contraceptives and abortion); as well as the right to own property.
As a movement these women produced the deepest transformation in American society and enlisted the largest number of participants. Social changes have not only included the right to vote, greater equality in the workforce, as well as reproductive rights but also the recognition of injustices and the ways in which both men and women can work to change them. In the years of the movement, women accomplished many of the goals they set out to do. They won protection from employment discrimination, inclusion in affirmative action, abortion law reform, greater representation in media, equal access to school athletics, congressional passage of an equal rights movement and so much more. Demographic changes started sweeping industrial society's; birth rates declined, life expectancy increased, and women were entering the paid labor force in massive amounts and new public policies emerged fitted to changing family forms and individual life cycles.
Feminism isn’t about women being more like men, or the two becoming one. Feminism recognizes that men and women are capable of different things, not based on gender, but on individuality. It’s about being liberated and making genuine choices. The focus on feminism needs to be on the freedom of choice, and not on the choices that any one individual makes.
So, a FEMINIST is considered a person whose beliefs and behavior are based on feminism. Seems simple and straightforward right? WRONG! The feminist movement was and is not simple. Following the civil rights movement - the women came storming in - bra-less and all. What started out as a movement demanding equal rights among the sexes continues to be just that.
The feminist movement has effected change in Western society, including women's suffrage; greater access to education; more nearly equitable pay with men; the right to initiate divorce proceedings and "no fault" divorce; and the right of women to make individual decisions regarding pregnancy (including access to contraceptives and abortion); as well as the right to own property.
As a movement these women produced the deepest transformation in American society and enlisted the largest number of participants. Social changes have not only included the right to vote, greater equality in the workforce, as well as reproductive rights but also the recognition of injustices and the ways in which both men and women can work to change them. In the years of the movement, women accomplished many of the goals they set out to do. They won protection from employment discrimination, inclusion in affirmative action, abortion law reform, greater representation in media, equal access to school athletics, congressional passage of an equal rights movement and so much more. Demographic changes started sweeping industrial society's; birth rates declined, life expectancy increased, and women were entering the paid labor force in massive amounts and new public policies emerged fitted to changing family forms and individual life cycles.
Feminism isn’t about women being more like men, or the two becoming one. Feminism recognizes that men and women are capable of different things, not based on gender, but on individuality. It’s about being liberated and making genuine choices. The focus on feminism needs to be on the freedom of choice, and not on the choices that any one individual makes.
Online Feminist community - http://www.feminist.com/
National Womens History Project - http://www.nwhp.org/
History of the Movement - http://www.legacy98.org/
History of the Movement - http://www.legacy98.org/
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