Critical Analysis: Shirley Chisholm Speech Equal Rights for Women In her famous speech “Equal Rights for Women,” addressed to The United States House of Representatives in Washington D.C, May 21, 1969, Chisholm addresses the assumption about women in society being treated unfair. She expresses how women are viewed in society and the prejudice against women that’s being accepted daily and sought out to secure equal rights for women by introducing a proposal “that has been before every Congress for the last 40 years and that will sooner or later must become part of the basic law of the land..”(1), as the Equal Rights Amendment. In her speech she not only expresses and highlights how women are viewed differently in many aspects of life but she refutes common arguments and shows how gender discrimination is harmful for both men and women in society. Early in her speech, Chisholm relied on her personal experience to persuade her case for Equal Rights. Chisholm stated, “Prejudice as a black person is becoming unacceptable...” (1) While she then states “Prejudice against women is acceptable” (1).
Public attention was also required for it to raise awareness among them. United Nations, for the purpose of protecting rights of women, conducted a conference which discussed the issues of women as subject of domestic violence. The United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women was formulated in 1993 and it gave women a new position in society. In the light of the definition of the United Nations, many social work organizations and non-government organizations worked to protect the rights of women and certain policies and legislation formulation was also focussed on the provision of security to women (Gracia-Moreno, et al., 2005). UNESCO Women and Culture Peace Program also started in this regard and educational and awareness campaigns were launched under its umbrella.
Each of these treaties protected and promoted the rights of women in areas in which the Commission considered such rights to be particularly vulnerable. But it was believed that, except in those areas, women's rights were best protected and promoted by the general human rights treaties (www.un.org). This was a great day for the United Nations for the women they had finally got it out their that women's right and issues are a big deal and that the world needs to take notice. In the article I read about the UN taking notice is said in the article “EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CLAIM THAT THE UN NOW TAKES SERIOUSLY women’s issues, gender equality, and the representation of women in all areas of society, including the UN and its leadership, appears to be rich and varied. In his annual report on the workings of the United Nations, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has repeatedly raised the issue of women, women’s equality, and the prevention of violence against women and girls, In 2009 the Convention on the
Eleanor was destined to ensure equal opportunities for women, and didn’t care what the consequences would be. Eleanor helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was her greatest achievement for equality. The Declaration of Human Rights served as a foundation for basic human rights and freedom regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, or any other status. Without Eleanor’s endless support towards women’s rights, women would still be the most underrepresented and fraught group in the world. Eleanor’s hard work and devotion towards women’s rights proves why she is a significant figure in
Finally, women were not allowed to divorce from an abusive or destructive marriage (Stanton). There were two instigators of suffrage that helped other women stand up for themselves and for other women all across America. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony made changes that eventually made way for the 19th Amendment. After the two met, they turned out to be a powerful team. Together they formed the National Women Suffrage Association (or the NWSA) (Colman).
Founding Mothers gave me information relating directly to my project. It was useful, very helpful, and my main resource. Westward Movement Secondary Sources: Lunardini, Christine.What Every American Should Know About Women's History.Holbrook, Massachusetts. Christine Lunardin Inc. 1994 This book showed me all the important events that happened in women history. It helped because it gave me the impression that women 's history was more than just a fight to vote.
This was true in the 1840’s and 1850’s, in the post World War I years, and in the 1960’s. I found that one of the earlier feminist novels, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Hurston was controversial but also helped lead the path to progression of the feminist movement. Her work fell between not romanticizing Black folk life, and not condemning it either. The focus of the novel’s integrity and women-centered approach was the protagonist search for identity through a relationship with the Black community rather than White society.” (Giddings, p. 193) By the late twenties, Hurston’s perspective began to permeate the political thinking of Black women. During this time, Black feminism took place full force.
The main research question guiding the qualitative process is: What type of impact can all-female peacekeeping units have in post-conflict societies in a context where physical and sexual violence was widely used against women? Secondary questions regarding the additional roles that all-female peacekeeping units can serve in post-conflict societies, their potential role in reducing physical and sexual violence against women and their role in the empowerment of women are also addressed. To answer them, this study will evaluate the impact that the all-female peacekeeping unit has on empowering women, both victims and non-victims of physical and sexual violence, and the impact that the all-female peacekeeping unit has on Liberian men. This study is important for it can provide insightful information regarding the role that all-female peacekeeping units could have in post-conflict societies, especially where physical and
“On June 10, 1963, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, an amendment to the Fair Labors Standards Act of 1938 included in Volume 29 of the United States Code was approved and signed into law. This amendment guarded against sex-based discrimination of pay between men and women employed by the same business performing under similar working conditions (Teasley).” After many freedom movements women finally had gained their rights. Women could now work with wages and hours equivalent to
The National Organization of Women is devoted to women getting equal rights. As stated in the excerpt, “women can achieve such equality only by accepting to the full the challenges and responsibilities they share with all other people in our society, as part of the decision-making mainstream of America political, economic and social life” (113). Changes that take place in our everyday lives make it possible and necessary to give women the equality that they deserve. Women should not have to