Exploratory Essay: Empowering Women

She gained experience managing and overseeing the operations of nonprofit organizations while working at the Greene County Service Center and the American Red Cross. Loretta founded SuperGirl SHINE Foundation after realizing some of the challenges young girls face while trying to grow up in impoverished neighborhoods through her with young girls through her work with the SuperLady Live Movement. Loretta made a personal commitment to try and change the lives of these young women by empowering them to breakdown the generational and societal barriers they faced by committing themselves to a prosperous future and learning how to make good decisions to achieve that end. As Board President, Loretta will be responsible for for supervising and controlling the affairs of the Corporation and exercising such supervisory powers as may be given by the Board of Directors; performing all duties incident to such

I think that “The Birthplace of Women’s Rights” expresses how Stanton contributed to the women’s rights movement. I think that “A Powerful Partnership” tells us how they worked together to protect women’s rights. It also shows how she managed to complete the task of getting women’s rights. “The Birthplace of Women’s Rights” talked about her getting into women’s rights and the time she put into it. She helped women get rights so the 19th amendment was made, it granted women the right to vote.

Mary Wollstonecraft states her opinion on the argument that education is the basis for gaining equality within a society. Educating women begin the process of educating the next generation. Mary Wollstonecraft mentions in her essay that an education for women is essential, for it is their gender’s responsibility to educate and nurture the next generation of children. Quoted in the phrase “such an attention to a child as will slowly sharpen the senses, form the temper, regulate the passions as they being to ferment, and set the understanding to work before the body arrives at maturity” (Wollstonecraft 220)”.

In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, the author Khaled Hosseini emphasizes the importance of education in woman. With the importance of education in women comes the endurance of woman. Hosseini displays the endurance of hardships that women face in Afghanistan through his female characters in the novel. In the beginning of the novel, Mariam wants to go to school and be able to learn like other children,“She pictured herself in a classroom with other girls her age.

This book also had positive and negative points. For example, a positive point is how women were trying to become independent, as well as gain their individual rights. “In a lengthy series of resolutions, Cady Stanton and the others called for an end to all discrimination based on sex. Cady Stanton’s appropriation of the Declaration of Independence was a brilliant propagandistic stroke.” (Banner 40-41) In the attempt of gaining their rights, Cady Stanton and other women gathered the strength to speak demand their suffrage.

Eleanor Roosevelt was a Humanitarian because she was an advocate for human and civil rights, she taught at inner city schools and changed the way women were treated in the government. She was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. At age 15 Eleanor enrolled at Allenswood, a girls’ boarding school outside London, where she was taught by the French headmistress, Marie Souvestre. Souvestre was an advocate of social responsibility and independence for young women. Her curiosity and desire to have greatness in everything caused Eleanor to become interested in these same fields.

In the “A Feminist Odyssey,” she uses the term “feminism” to say that she wants every human being to be treated in the same, fair manner. She wanted us to be aware that women dominate the nursing field. “Our generation has given the gift of choice to expand our possibilities, to embrace careers” (99). It was said that a woman could have a job but as soon as she had a baby they would no longer work “Young women expected to limit their aspirations to traditionally female careers” (99). Some profession that comes to mind for “Women’s Work” would be Teacher, Nursing, Housekeeping, Maid, and Housewife’s.

Sandberg shares her mother's and grandmother's

Let Girls Learn In her efforts to raise awareness for women’s rights at the Let Girls Learn event in early 2016, Michelle Obama, an American lawyer and the first African American First Lady of the Unites States, strategically writes her speech to display the conditions girls around the world endure to live a life without the simple right to an education. She develops her speech through the use of gratitude as a connection to the public, an appeal to pathos and the final shift in tense to establish hope among the people. Together, these strategies allow Michelle Obama to inform the society that they must unite as one in order to effectively and successfully support the education of girls around the world. Obama begins by making a personal connection with the public through gratitude for their endless efforts to assist in the program.

Women started or helped to push settlement houses, Women’s’ Clubs, and most importantly, the women 's’ right to vote.

The name of the organization I chose for Kingdom Fair was YWCA of Northern Orange County. YWCA (Young Women Christian Association) is dedicated to empowering women, girls and their families economically and socially. Their mission is to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. The YWCA accomplish their mission by empowering generations of women addressing their changing personal needs. They hope to equip many diverse individuals to achieve and maintain social, physical, financial, intellectual and spiritual well-being.

al, also focuses on women, who participated in the Civil Rights Movement. They examine Bates’ role in the movement and what she is most notably known for the integration of Little Rock Central High School. In addition, they examine the roles that Bates played in the movement, not just as a leader of

During my high school years I was able to channel my passion to examine discrimination and social development through my involvement with the Sadie Nash Leadership Project (SNLP). SNLP is a woman’s education and advocacy nonprofit committed to promoting leadership among underrepresented young women. For the first time in my life, I was having deep personal conversations with empowered women. We sought to inspect and challenge unequal power dynamics based on numerous systems of oppression. We questioned why women didn’t feel empowered to make decisions and be leaders, as well as what actions and involvement we as young women can have to impact change on a larger scale.