Jane Doe Research Paper

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I want to thank Miami Dade College – West for the opportunity to speak to you I want to recognize Jane Doe for her efforts to blah blah blah as well as John Doe for his compassionate blah, blah, blah.

One hundred years ago women in the United States won the right to vote. I say won, because it was a contest, a struggle, a marathon. Women were scorned, spat upon and beaten. It was a bare knuckle fight, and we won. Women have been winning ever since. There have certainly been set backs and defeats, but the movement for women’s equality will not be defeated.

This wasn’t the struggle of one woman, it was the struggle of every woman. Women who didn’t mobilize for the right to vote still benefited from the work of others. I am here today to urge you to take your place in the movement for women’s equality.

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We must acknowledge that the same dynamics exist within our own culture and I'm not just talking about sexual crimes.

Shockingly, surveys suggest that a quarter of people think that a woman is in some way responsible for being raped if she wears sexy or revealing clothing. Around one in five people think it would sometimes be acceptable for a man to hit or slap his partner if she wore sexy or revealing clothing. Pervasive phrases like “Bros before hos” reflect a disposability of women in our culture. Even the common use of the term “females” reduces women to a clinical gynotype.
Here in the United States the Violence Against Women Act has had bipartisan support since it was introduced in 1994, but the rightwing-controlled House is countering with a new version of the bill that would diminish the protections of the act. That bill would deny support to LGBT survivors of domestic violence, fail to continue protection of Native American women abused on tribal lands and eliminate the visa process that helps immigrant survivors of violence.

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