During the “New Girl” Era, women in Germany suffered discrimination because of the fact that they were not men. They lived in an era that was almost entirely run by men. Women were given less job opportunities and were finally given women’s rights, but were not able to fully use them because they were still restricted from doing many things. This lead to Hannah’s creations of her photomontages that were inspired by her social and political views on this era.
To a certain extent the theme rich vs poor can also relate to society. For instance, because the first impressions of the “hood” are always bad, we just assume they are belligerent and bad. However, in reality, people that dress well and have an impressive demeanor is not always good. As people make these assumptions, they often do not see the dreadful and idiotic things they do. For example, Donald Trump had been accused of sexual harassment by eight women and there has been nothing done to help these women.
In conclusion, in Irving’s time, women were scrutinized as nothing but a tool used to please the men. With this being said, Irving was writing things about women that were normalized in his society. Although, in today’s society, any man who spoke of a woman with a bitter tongue would be considered a misogynist. Women have since claimed the respect they deserve, and any man who challenges it should be transported back to the
The women, like Curley’s wife, did not have the ability to escape loneliness as they were seen as property that the men could later abandon. Crooks and the rest of the African Americans were lonely, as they did not have enough social power, and were not considered as important as the whites. Finally, the disabled, including Lennie, were not given a chance because they were seen as flawed. The one thing that all these groups have in common is that they are all minorities, so there were less of them. This means there were less people who actually wanted to talk to them got what they meant.
In addition, they formed the majority of the suburban housewives who were doing far much better compared to the working-class women of color. In her work, Friedan discriminates African-American women to a large extent even in the light that many of them formed the category of working-class women. She actually, entirely underscores their contributions to the economy at the time. The reason why she left them out of the book could be because they never participated in the roles that she deemed “fulfilling” or those that she advocated. While Friedan generalizes the idea that all women were struggling to achieve equality with men at the time, she fails to understand that there were others who were not under the broad “category of Feminine Mystique.”
The document "On the Equality of the Sexes" by Judith Sargent Murray reveals the author's arguments on gender inequality in America. Published in 1790 in the Massachusetts Magazine, Murray's thoughts on the matter of women's education stems from her own experience on denied opportunities because of her gender. She was not allowed to attend college for the simple fact that she was a female, but had studied alongside her brother while he was preparing for college. This shows that despite her sex, she was just as capable as a male in terms of intellectual capacity and it was unfair that she was not allowed to further this pursuit.
Men and women weren’t treated the same way. They couldn’t vote which made them feel very discriminated.
The Help has a plot that tells about American history and how times have changed over the decades. It shows what the lives were like of many different people in the 1960’s. During that time, there were many racial boundaries that stopped African Americans from being free as well as separated them from the same rights that the whites had. The theme is represented by the main conflict in this story, whereby a white lady named Skeeter writes a book to show the lives of African American maids in the 1960’s. In addition, she writes about the struggles of keeping it a secret without everyone in Jackson, Mississippi finding out.
1. Three political issues that are most evident for women during the 1960’s and 1970’s Chicana/o Movement are oppression, machismo, and control over their bodies. Chicana’s encountered oppression from La Raza because they focused on getting equal rights for the men and completely put the women’s needs aside. Women were not accepted by the leaders in the Chicano Movement or the Anglo establishment (Vidal 22).
The 1960s’ was when civil rights and feminist movements were occurring. American society was undergoing a major amount of social transformations. The courts felt women were needed more at home then in court. Women were allowed to be fired if they were pregnant.
This act however is hardly ever followed and even those proven to have disobeyed the law usually get away with it. In the U.S there is still people who disbelieve the fact that women are still paid less than men women however have fired back at such people commenting on how it’s technically illegal to pay women less. For example a tumblr post respond to men insisting that women are paid equal to men. The tumblr user responded and I quote, “Do you know what’ else is illegal?
At that time, women were the dependent of men. Married women had to obey their husband, and they did not have any rights for herself which caused many women suffered in inferiority complex. Their inferiority complex also caused them inequality in education and career opportunities which were the conclusion of the Declaration of Sentiments. Women did not have the opportunity to study at school, and they were treated differently with men in work field. The people in the convention were fighting for the women’s rights to relieve the women’s suffering.
It was wide than just the salary increments to equate them. The Willmar 8 served as eye opening to the culture, society structures, a traditional family set up, plight of women before several society aspects and the way they handled them. Ironically, the Willmar’s Citizens national underpaid women while there was a law the equal pay act of 1963 prohibiting unequal payment to women and men. When the women filed their case at Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the case was ruled in their favor but they were not compensated due to the task, NLRB terming the strike as economical.
Thought of as dumb and retarted women were also disrespected and still are. At the time they were discriminated against for many reasons between gender inequality to straight up abuse based off of ignorance. One striking source of abuse was that they were disrespected because of their views against slavery. This among many other things is ignorant and was based off of anger towards the blacks which led to anger towards anyone who was willing to stand up for them. Although women disagreed with slavery, they did not stand up as much as would have been helpful for the time and often sat back and stayed in there places.
Lastly they were not able to make political and economical decisions they did not have the right to vote or even go to the same schools as the “Whites”. Therefore they needed to be seen as people and not treated with segregation and oppression.