Mahatma Gandhi has rightfully said, ‘Intellectually, mentally, and spiritually, woman is equivalent to a male and she can participate in every activity." From the mythological days of Gods and Goddesses, women has been worshipped as “Shakti” meaning Strength. She is believed to be sharing 50% of mental, physical and spiritual space in the life of a man.
India is one of those countries which has seen many great women who has played stellar roles and has challenged men in all the fields in life. The best part is Indian women are coming out of their conventional roles and realizing their potential, coming forward walking hand in hand with men in all walks of life. This day – International Women’s Day is the perfect day to celebrate their success and superpower and inspire them to keep going and make them realize that they are capable of and much more.
I did my schooling from a girls’ high school. We were taught in school to fight hard and strive for whatever we yearn, only hard work, determination and at times failure will lead us to our respective goals. All this sounded so simple to me back then. Only now did I understand the weightage of these high sounding words – Failure, Hurdle, Heartache, and Sorrow which helped me come closer to Success.
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Whenever I read the heroic deeds performed by any woman in any part of the world, I get inspired from their story. Every woman can be a hero in their own way, even with the smallest of actions that they perform in their routine life. Only recently I was watching the movie biopic made on Neerja Bhanot, the youngest recipient of the “Ashok Chakra Award” and I couldn’t say how awe-inspiring the story was for the women out there. The most important thing I learnt from the movie was “You should not do any bad things in life and neither should you have a high tolerance for them if you see anything bad is happening around
Courage is not simply about how well you deal with fear, how many noble deeds you accomplish, or how you overcome life threatening situations. Courage is the practice of determination and perseverance. Something like, an unwillingness to abandon a dream even when the pressures of society weigh down on your shoulders; society will make you feel tired, humiliated, broken, and confused. Actually, it can be effortlessly said that daily courage is more significant than bouts of great deeds. Since everybody undergoes demanding circumstances on a daily basis, and most of us will not be called to perform a great deed, courage comes from those daily struggles and successes. However, Kate Bornstein is one person who has been able to transform her everyday life into a brilliant deed of courage. She threw herself into an unknown abyss to discover truth that many others would never dare tread. Ingeniously combining criticism of socially defined boundaries, an intense sense of language, and a candid autobiography, Bornstein is able to change cultural attitudes about gender, insisting that it is a social construct rather than a regular occurrence, through here courageous writing.
Woman were important during World War II because the men were fighting in war so women had to fill in the jobs and roles of the men. There were advertisements to encourage women to take the jobs of the men, the women joined nursing corps and armed forces so more men could be sent into battle. Nobody wanted women to join the military but after the attack on Pearl Harbor, they decided to let women join the Army, Navy and Coast Guards.
If everyone thinks that without struggle, it is easy to obtain their goals that is entirely false. Struggle comes from the progress of our success and achievement. It is an indication that we poured all of our time and patience into the things we pursue. Jeannette Walls, the author of The Glass Castle, explain her struggles. She survives by finding foods from the trash can and earns money by babysitting, exchanging scrap metal, finding jobs, and from her parents. As a graduating student from high school, receiving my diploma is an indication that I ...
The woman's rights movement largely contributed to the extent of democratic ideals expansion. Women have never been treated the same as men and documents show how woman were treated back then. Frances Grage wrote, “that man over there, says that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches” (Doc 7). This shows how in the 1800’s women were looked on as. It’s saying women are incapable of doing things for themselves and need a man to help them. Another example is a picture of a woman under a bridge with her child and the husband crossing the bridge drinking his life away (Doc 4). This document shows the life of typical women during this time. The woman stays at home cleaning the house and caring for the children while the husband goes out drinking and having fun. Another source showed how the women's movement rebelled. “Almost 300 people... arrived at the convention” on July 19, 1848. This is an example of people standing up for their democratic ideals. All these sources make it evident that the woman's rights movement made a big impact on democratic ideals expansion.
From 1815 to 1850, our country was very divergent from today. Back then, Women had no rights nor did they have the same rights as men. Women and enslaved people had no rights to hold legal title to property. And unfortunately, all of a wife´s possessions belonged to her husband. But women were not the only ones who had no equal rights, African americans had no rights as well. Back in 1619, slavery began. African americans had no rights and neither did they have freedom. They were owned by people and some worked on farms for their whole entire life. Later throughout the years, both Women and African americans were fighting for their rights. Fortanully, as of today, Women and African Americans have equal rights just as everyone else. The U.S.
Through the 20th century, the communist movement advocated greatly for women's’ rights. Despite this, women still struggled for equality.
The Feminist Movement begin in the in 1848 spearheaded by the Seneca Fall Convention (Smith & Hamon, 2012). Feminism is the reaction to many year of oppression by a male dominated society. In the Feminist Movement women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Canton Stanton desired rights, opportunities, and the identity that women deserved (Smith & Hamon, 2012). Osmond and Thorne (1993) stated that Feminist respond by expressing their desire to “develop knowledge that will further social change, knowledge that will help confront and end subordination of women as it related to the pattern of subordination based on social class, race, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation” (p. 592). The “first wave” of the Feminist Movement
Nothing simply begins. Everything needs something else in order to develop and live continuously. Fire needs wood to burn, water needs heat to boil, and the women’s right movement needed abolition to begin the real fight. The women’s rights movement of the nineteenth century emerged out of abolition activism because it was not until after abolitionist groups formed and began fighting slavery that women began to realize they had no rights themselves and began their own fight.
Women are seen as house wives, who stay at home clean, cook, and watch the kids while the husband is at work getting money to support his family. Times have changed, we women no longer want to be seen as housewives, we are more than that and for that reason The Feminist Movement began. Fighting for equality to stand up to society. The Feminist Movement gained respect and equal rights for women all over the world.
Gender roles have been a predominant factor in our world since the early emergence of human societies whether they are positive or negative. They are based on expectations that societies have over the people in them. The Epic of Sunjata, shows us how men and women are treated almost equally in different forms. Women are praised for their ability to birth leaders, which is similar to the early Greek Society. In most societies, women are treated less equal than men. This was prevalent in the early Indian society. No matter the gender role, it has been shown that any society cannot survive without both men and women.
Throughout this essay it will be discussed how female representations affects society, what has changed, if has changed during the years. Representations of women were a crucial subject of discussion especially in the concepts of the gaze that often refers to women as objects of the active gaze. The gaze establishes relationships of power, representing different codes such as dominance and subjugation, difference and otherness (Sturken and Cartwright 2009: 111).
In order to achieve these goals, Indian feminist writers have exerted their energies to deconstruct the past, reconstruct a more meaningful present. They have unravelled the thick tapestries of male hegemony and analysed the reasons for the persistent reproduction of conscious and unconscious presumptions about women and they have knitted up a woman’s tradition.
Throughout the 19th century, feminism played a huge role in society and women’s everyday lifestyle. Women had been living in a very restrictive society, and soon became tired of being told how they could and couldn’t live their lives. Soon, they all realized that they didn’t have to take it anymore, and as a whole they had enough power to make a change. That is when feminism started to change women’s roles in society. Before, women had little to no rights, while men, on the other hand, had all the rights. The feminist movement helped earn women the right to vote, but even then it wasn’t enough to get accepted into the workforce. They were given the strength to fight by the journey for equality and social justice. There has been known to be
It is 2016 now, with the pass of the time, in today’s generation the women are becoming aware of their rights, they want freedom, they want to be independent, and they want to be on their own, this is making the women to get a way to rise up from the duty of household works or raising the children, this is opening new gates of opportunities for women, but also a threat of insecurity for women in workplaces or other places, including schools or in social places, is increasing. But, sadly women safety become a common concern at international level.
Fight for gender equality is not a fight against men. It is a fight against traditions that have chained them – a fight against attitudes that are ingrained in the society – it is a fight against system – a fight against proverbial laxshman Rekha which is different for men and different for women. The society must rise to the occasion. It must recognize & accept fact that men and women are equal partners in life. They are individual who have their own identity.