For many hundreds of years, women have strived for gaining equality with men. They have been held back and their opportunities taken away from them because of the fact that they were women. Feminism is the belief in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. And it is the feminist movement that has been trying to give these rights to women who have been deprived of their equality and privileges that men have never given them. I believe that women have every right to be equal with men and feminism is what is slowly accomplishing this. Feminism is beneficial to men, women, and their families because it is allowing mothers, daughters, and sisters to have an equal opportunity in life to achieve all they can without any discrimination based on their sex. It is a human right to be equal to others around you and it does not matter if you are male or female. They should both receive the same opportunities and privileges given in life and feminism helps women accomplish this task of equality. Everyone views the world with his or her own sense of gender and equality. Feminists view the world as being unequal. They wish to see the gender gap and the idea that men are superior to women decreased or even abolished. Carol Gilligan is one woman who has contributed much time and effort to the feminist theory. Her beliefs and ideas are based upon difference feminism.
Gender inequality in education is extreme. Girls are less likely to access school, to
remain in school or to achieve in education. Education helps men and women claim their
rights and realise their potential in the economic, political and social arenas. It is
also the single most powerful way to lift people out of poverty. Education plays a
particularly important role as a foundation for girls’ development towards adult life. It
should be an intrinsic part of any strategy to address the gender-based discrimination
against women and girls that remains prevalent in many societies.Feminism is allowing women to expand their careers and businesses that they never were able to have before. Women now have power in government and they hold high and powerful jobs. They have gained their independence from a male dominated society and are rising to become less dependent on their husbands for financial support. Many women are now even managing their own families, without the help or support of a man. Men are also being helped because their wives are now able to help with financial needs; they aren't depended on for the only source of income for their family anymore. Feminism is allowing women to have better high paying The understanding of feminism goes way beyond the Western view; to understand feminism one must be able to acknowledge those who stand outside the Eurocentric view and look beyond it to bring both into the same perspective. Western feminists are only able to be audacious enough to do something within their own society and they recognized non-western women and see them as being less fortunate . Feminists are blind; they only focus on the society that they come from, and then secondly, or sometimes never, on those outside of their own society. Feminism itself is a movement that is capable of aiming for the equal rights for all women on the grounds of political, social and economic situations. A feminist should be able to do this on a universal scale for all women including western and nonwestern, for they know that the two societies are essentially different due to cultural and religious circumstances, but are stronger together than alone.The key to a dual-sex system is the understanding of gender in society and culture through Africa before colonization . African society groups, such as the Igbo culture are defined and represented by sex; these groups have no gender, and so therefore, each sex manages their own affairs . The dual-sex political systems give women power in their society versus the Western single-sex political system where the roles are to be held by a man . Political roles were always meant for males until women's rights were challenged, but then there is the issue of women being forced into male roles; roles originally intended to be dominated by a male, which was the intended purpose of the society . The intended purpose of a dual-system is therefore different in the non-western view because women running women concerns and organizations and the men vice versa who running their own organizations and concerns throughout their society. jobs that are allowing them to have greater incomes.
CitationC N Trueman "Feminism And Education"
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