The Feminist And Masculine Movement

Throughout history men and women have been put into the rigidly defined roles of feminism and masculism. This box that society has created has push back the true people and presented us with the societal image of what men and women should be. This is gender stereotyping. Through these stereotypes a feminist movement and a masculine movement have arisen to try to break those stereotypes. A stereotype is a over-exaggerated view of someone or something. The exaggerations are often not even realistic. In this case it has led to the creation of two different movements. These movements are called the feminine and masculine movements. In these movements the one that is mainly focused on is the feminist movement. This is because throughout history

In WWI women gained many rights like the ability to join the military. Even though they were allowed to join the military, they are only able to be “support staff” and out of “33,000 [of them], 400 died in the line of duty”(“Time Line”). Still they were not able to be apart of the fighting force. In fact, women did not get the right to vote until August of 1920. This was a problem because it showed that men thought of women as just a thing that should stay home and cook, clean, and take care of the children. Therefore, what they did in some countries was to write a “Bill of Rights”(“Women 's Movement”). So when they were writing it they “found a consensus on six measures essential to ensuring women’s equality: enforcement of laws banning employment discrimination; maternity leave rights; child-care centres that could enable mothers to work; tax deductions for child-care expenses; equal and unsegregated education; and equal job-training opportunities for poor women (“Women’s Movement”). The reason this is important is that it set the groundwork for the feminist movements all across the world. Still, the movement has been so successful that it has started to oppress the

That is like when they let women join the two world wars. They didn’t let the women fight, they only let the women be paid staff or something to help the men. Still men have it rough because they have a view of “social legal pressure to fight in war”(“When Men”). They also have problems with divorces which is where they are the most disadvantaged. This is because “men can face burdensome alimony payments even in situations where their ex-wives are capable of working and earning a substantial income. Even in cases where temporary alimony makes sense-as when a spouse has quit a job to raise the children”(“When Men”). Then they also only “received custody of children in only about 10 percent of divorce cases in the United States” (“When Men”). Still there are problems for both sides that requires the other. But then when they try to solve it they end up stepping on each others toes and making the other one