Once upon a time, there was a feminist movement. And it was needed because a woman could not buy a house without a man. She could not get a credit card without a man. She would make less pay because she was not a man or be refused jobs because she was not a man. She could be fired if she got pregnant and was refused admittance into many colleges and universities because she was not a man.
Then there was a feminist revolution. In some ways, they flew in wake of the civil right movement. When they were done, just as institutionalized racism was gone in the US, so was institutionalized sexism.
Two of the blogs I follow recently responded to a claim that it is time to abandon feminism. Read the posts from these ladies.
Institutional sexism in the US is gone, but that does not mean that sexism is gone. The wage gap is real and is not a simple as detractors like to think. Women live in a more dangerously gendered United States than men -- and in a more dangerous world. Walking through the streets at night, or getting an education, contain greater hurdles for women than for men. And this is without getting into the problems presented by new heights of objectification reached through growing technology, as Simcha Fisher did.
No comments:
Post a Comment