Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990s
Overall, the rights and status of women have improved considerably in the last century; however, gender equality has recently been threatened within the last decade. Blatantly sexist laws and practices are slowly being eliminated while social perceptions of �women�s role� continue to stagnate and even degrade back to traditional ideals. It is these social perceptions that challenge the evolution of women as equal on all levels. In this study, I will argue that subtle and blatant sexism continues to exist throughout educational, economic, professional and legal arenas.
Women who carefully follow their expected roles may never recognize sexism as an oppressive force in their life. I ...
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McCall Magazine dated December 1949, called �A Weekend with Daddy.� A little girl, who lives a lonely life with her mother, who is divorced, and intellectual know-it-all psychologist, goes to the country to spend a weekend with her farther and his new wife, who is wholesome, happy, a good cook and gardener. There is love, laughter, growing flowers, hot clams and a gourmet cheese omelet, and square dancing, and she doesn�t want to go home! But, pitying her poor mother typing away all by herself in the lonesome apartment, she keeps her guilty secret that from now on she will be living for the moments when she can escape to that dream home in the country where they know �what life is all about.� (See Endnote #1)
I have often consulted my grandparents about their experiences; I found their historical perspectives enlightening. My grandmother was pregnant with her third child in 1959. Her work experience included interior design and modeling women�s clothes for the Sears ...
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harm may be imminent. Mental and physical health may be taxed by childcare. There is also a distress, for all concerned, associated with the unwanted psychologically and otherwise, to care for it. In other cases, as in this one, the additional difficulties and continuing stigma of unwed motherhood may be involved.� (See Endnote #2)
I feel the court decision of Roe v. Wade would not have been made in 1959. Even in 1973, it was a progressive decision. The problem of abortion has existed for the entire history of this country (and beyond) but had never been addressed because discussing these issues was not socially acceptable. A culture of not discussing issues that have a ...
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