Jaycee Jones 201265673 Women’s Movement in Argentina The fact that women are discriminated against and often viewed as inferior to men is no secret. Women all over the world have struggled to gain equality. Some of the rights that women longed for included better treatment at work and home, higher education, and parental authority. Many women in Latin America had conflicting views about certain women’s rights such as suffrage and divorce. While some progress has been made, Argentine women continue to fight for their rights with the help of important leaders and organizations because certain rights are still denied and violence against women continues to be a huge issue. Throughout history atrocities against women have not been considered human …show more content…
Women had to ask the men in their life for permission to do certain things such as get a job or sign a contract. Women were limited to certain professions. In addition, women were not allowed to keep their earnings, divorce their husbands, or vote. The Argentine Civil Code was written in 1870. As one would expect, women were not granted any political rights. Consequently, women sought after change. In the nineteenth century, many feminists looked toward anarchism because freedom and equality for all was supported. However, many of the anarchist men were against feminism. The Anarchist press included feminist articles, which were presumably written by women under pseudonyms. The paper was called La Voz de la Mujer, which translates to The Voice of Women. La Voz de la Mujer discussed the oppression of women and supported free love. The idea of free love was also supported by other anarchists and libertarians. However, free love was nothing compared to the other struggles that women faced in the nineteenth century. The working conditions of women were awful. Women were paid about half as much as men, which is still a problem in the twenty-first century. Despite barely any breaks women worked 12-hour days. Women often encountered medical problems such as tuberculosis and irregular menstruation. Along with chronic pain due to inflamed joints and …show more content…
Juan Perón was the president during this time and his wife Eva Perón was the First Lady of Argentina. While many people admired Eva Perón, alias Evita Perón, she was also hated by people, specifically the upper classes. In 1947 women were granted political rights such as voting and running for office. Four years later women participated in the national election and 58 women were elected in the provinces. In the 1951 Argentina election, a larger percentage of women voted than men. Only 10 percent of women did not vote. Evita Peron is accredited the achievement of women’s suffrage in Argentina, but some scholars claim that her role is exaggerated and she played a much smaller part. Despite her involvement in giving women the right to vote, she did not define herself as a feminist. In fact, Eva Perón despised feminists and viewed them as masculine. In her autobiography, she expressed that she believed the feminist movement was about women that were “fanatically in love with a man’s cause” (Perón 61). When Evita Peron died in 1952 the whole country mourned and daily activity was
The Civil War in El Salvador lasted from 1980 to 1992, and the El SAlvadoran government was doing their best to minimize the threat of their opposition. Their main opposition, The Frente Farabundo Marti Para La Liberacion Nacional; otherwise known as the FMLN, was a guerrilla group that was organized to fight the corruption in the country. 175). One of the main goals of the organization was to create a new society that is not degrading its citizens and promotes equality. Throughout El Salvador’s history, one organization to the next would run the country through repressive actions and social injustice. One of the main reasons that the FMLN fought the acting government were due to these social restraints on the lower- class citizens in El Salvador.
(i) Women were limited regarding the responsibility for, obliging them to wed in order to acquire, hence keeping them from achieving genuine autonomy (it is this issue which practices proto-women 's activist scholars like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë). (ii) Women did not have full rights over their own particular body, which implied they had no lawful security against sexual viciousness (e.g. the possibility that a spouse could assault his better half was not conceded as law until late in the twentieth century). (iii) Women were victimized in the working environment, which not just implied ladies were paid not as much as men for the same work, it additionally confined them from applying for certain occupations, denied them advancement, and made no stipend for maternity take off. A considerable lot of these issues hold on
Women spent majority of their day ironing, washing clothes, baking, sewing clothes and raising their children (page 17). Religion also added to women’s lesser status (page 18). Religion was at the core life of Americans, female submission was decreed to be part of God’s order (page 18). Lucretia Mott soon pointed out that many scriptures celebrated female strength and independence (page 18). As a young girl Elizabeth Cady Stanton learned about laws that limited rights of wives and as an adult found ways to reform marriage and divorce laws (page 23). Things were looking up for women, by 1850 female wage workers made up nearly a quarter of the manufacturing labor work force (page 30). Women were still excluded from occupations such as the military, ministry, law, medicine and jobs felt inappropriate for women (page 32). During this antebellum period women were starting to rise up and realize they deserved to have the same rights and privileges men received. This gave women hope that things could change. By the second quarter of the 19th century few positive changes for women pushed Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B Anthony, Lucy Stone and others to challenge injustices and reform efforts (page
When drastic changes are needed to be done for equal opportunities and a better chance for the future a revolt is bound to happen. So with the Mexican revolution going on and men off to fight, the women faced many personal and governmental issues at home. Eventually being mobilized through political destruction, women were able to change the roles they were perceived, restrictions amongst them lessened, and Hermila Galindo became a huge factor with it all as she had political connections. In the end, the women of Mexico were bounded successfully in which they change how they were look upon among men and the rest of Latin America.
Women had a major stake in the Mexican Revolution, which began roughly in 1910 under the reign of Porfirio Diaz, considered a dictator by many historians, who ran Mexico with an iron first for around 26 years. Under his fierce dictatorship, women of all classes did not fare well.
The lack of participation of women in society in the United States before the women's rights movement in 1948 was remarkable. They did not participate in activities such as voting and fighting in wars. They also could not own property and "belonged" to their father until they were married, when they would then become the property of their husband. They were brought up to get married, often while they were still very young, then to become a good mother and housewife. The lack of activity though changed during the American Revolution that lasted from 1775 to 1783. This American Revolutionary experience had a great impact on the eventual movement for women's rights.
As far back as the Paleolithic era, women had different rights then men. Some of the injustices women faced include, not having a right to vote, a voice in law, and women could not enter most occupations. Women were not even allowed to get a college education. Once a women was married she had no rights, or in the case that the women got divorced she had no legally could not have custody of her children. Many religious believed God created women to be inferior. It was considered a natural law that men were above women. When women started the fight for more rights, it started out as a political and legal fight and eventually turned into a social and economic fight as well. Many women who started the fight, died before they could see there work pay off, including Susan Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone. In the U.S, Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren fought for the addition of women’s emancipation in the constitution. During the late 18th century, in the United States men had many rights while women had very few. Women also could not keep their own wages. One right woman maintained was the right to own property if their husband died.
The oppression and discrimination the women felt in this era launched the women into create the women’s right movement. The economic growth in the market economy women opportunity to work was very low Lucy Stone explained that the same society that pushes men forward keeps woman at home (Doc. H). Only low paying jobs were available such as factories, seamstress, or a teacher and in most states women had no control over their wages. Charlotte Woodward explained how she would sew gloves for a terrible wage but it was under rebellion she wished to choose her own job and the pay (Doc.E). The chart on Doc F explained how women between 1837-1844 dominated men as teachers in the Massachusetts Public School. The idea of the “cult of true womanhood” was that most respectable middle class women should stay at home and take care of the family and be the moral of the home. The advancement in the market economy gave women a chance to make their own money to be able to support themselves and work outside of the home. The nineteenth century was a ferment of reform such as the Second...
Nicaragua is a country plagued by several important issues, such as poverty and the lack of sanitation and clean drinking water. However, discrimination against women has become increasingly prevalent in nations of Latin America and has manifested in outright violence against women. In Nicaragua, “femicides,” or the homicides of women at the hands of men, and violence against women are becoming increasingly significant issue as a result of the pervasive culture of “machismo”; the Integral Law Against Violence Against Women, passed in 2012, criminalized violence against women, but has recently been mediated after facing opposition from several groups.
Women began to speak out against the laws that were deliberately set against them. Throughout this time period, women were denied the right to vote in all federal and most state held elections. Women struggled to achieve equality; equality as citizens, equality in the work place, and equality at home. During this time, Americans worked to fight corruption in government, reduce the power of big business, and improve society as a whole.
Along with being the First Lady of Argentina, Evita was at the forefront of the women's rights movement. They needed a spokesperson and Evita filled that position by making speeches and using her Democracia newspaper to persuade male and female followers alike to join her cause. Eventually, a law passed on September 23, 1947 allowing Argentine women the ability to vote (Fraser 106). Once the bill was signed, Juan Domingo Peron handed to her, and in Fraser and Navarro's words, “...making it hers, along with this substantial new constituency of women voters. ” Since more and more women were becoming involved in politics, a new party needed to be created. Partido Persona Feminine or the Peronist Feminist Party was established on July 26, 1949. Evita was elected as its first president because of her contributions to women's rights (Loveday 3). Accordingly, the title gave her the ability to further women’s strength in politics and change what had been a previously male dominated society. Had it not been for her, citizens would not respect a woman in a political environment and would undoubtedly disregard their political
Living in the 19th century was a very difficult time for women, as they were not yet granted social equality to that of the man. Women were deemed to be domesticated house slaves who would marry for the want of children and not decide to marry for true love. They had no choice but to stay chaste until marriage and were not even granted to speak to men unless there was a married woman present as a chaperone. Only very few women were able to gain the same education as a man, due to the social norms of the 19th century period. Women were unable to have a voice when it came to political activities such as voting and were instead expected to live their lives largely homebound. In the 19th century women were expected to clean, cook and look after
From the beginning of time, females have played a powerful role in the shaping of this world. They have stood by idly and watched as this country moved on without them, and yet they have demanded equal rights as the nation rolls along. Through the years the common belief has been that women could not perform as well as men in anything, but over the years that belief has been proven wrong time and time again. So as time marches on, women have clawed and fought their way up the ladder to gain much needed equal respect from the opposite sex. However, after many years of pain and suffering, the battle for equal rights has not yet been won. Since women have fought for a long time and proven their importance in society, they deserve the same rights as men.
In the 19th century, there was an up rise in feminism for their social role in life. Women were expected to be an average house wife, to take orders from their husbands without questioning them. The woman did not have privileges such as right to vote, to be educated, be free spirited and hold jobs. They lived in patriarchal society where man made all the decision in the household and his wife followed them. The inequality between the genders created frustration amongst females, of which after a prolonged mental impact they revolted. It can be said that the ambition for women to fight for their rights sparked the feminist movement. This movement was based on set of viewpoints, political ideologies, cultural and moral beliefs where women felt compelled to obtain their given rights. The feminist movement was a multi-facet of waves, each of which left an impression to the issues in relation to social status, legal inequalities, and liberation.
The modern world has resulted in earnings, wages and salaries for the women similar to that of men, but the women are continuously facing inequalities in the work force (Andal 2002). This2 can be attributed to the pre-established notion that women shall not be given access to finance or communication with the world outside of the home which is highly unethical and unfair (Eisenhower, 2002). In the past, they were considered as the underprivileged ones which were not thought of having equal rights but this fact has changed now. The status of women can be explicitly defined as the equality and the freedom of the women.