Feminism Is Not Equality

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The word feminism may remind one of female marches, protests, or perhaps of a significant woman in society that rebelled against the injustices and struggles women faced regarding inequality. When discussions of feminism ensue, two women tend to come to mind, Mary Wollestonecraft and Elizabeth Stanton. These significant political figures stood up for women’s rights, specifically equal pay for working class mothers to enable them to adequately support their families.

Feminism initially started off as a crusade to gain equal representation and certain liberties. These efforts generally succeeded. Today, not only in the Western world, women still face some of the same problems and struggles as they did in the past. This leads to the discussion as to whether or not the feminist movement is still necessary in today’s society.

The initial goal for feminists was gender equality. Since the early 1980’s, a large amount of feminists struggled to obtain social position compared to their male counterparts. Britain’s Equality Minister, Harriet Harman, a strong, influential political figure supported the feminist movement and made a press release encouraging business owners to hire more equally accredited females. That is if they were right for the job. Some argue that this government employee was biased towards females, and argue that she supported gender discrimination because she herself is a female.

History shows that favoritism encouraging the hiring of a female over a male drew a ridiculous amount of controversy worldwide. Imagine the outraged response if a president were to mandate that all supermarket chains were to hire men preferentially over females. A slew of protests and cries of indignant condemnation would flood...

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...tudy contradicts press statements made in America regarding gender inequality and denounces the representation that women typically earn less money than their male counterparts. On the other end of the spectrum, it is reported that women who possess high ranking director positions in America statistically earn a median pay of around $120,000.00, while men holding similar positions bring home a median income closer to $105,000.00. (you need to cite your information)

It could be resolved that if feminism continues on its current path that it could soon degenerate into an over glorified hate group. Many may argue that it already has. The same could be supposed for America and the modern feminist movement.

The time for feminism has drawn to an end. It can be deduced that those who want feminism don’t want equality and those that want equality don’t want feminism.

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