Women Rights in the United states

Hello, everyone.

My name is Nefertari Williams and I will be presenting

to you about women rights in the United States.

The topics that I will discuss will be the history

of women in the United States.

Um, the first wave, the second wave and the third

wave. The theory that goes along with women and, um,

the types different types of feminist theories oppression, cycle, social

factors, solutions, approaches, empowerment and strength and resource is interventions

and effectiveness.

Throughout the United States, women have been fighting for equal

rights as early as the 1600.

They fought for equal rights in the work pace.

They fought for equal rights with pay and education.

Even in everyday everyday life, they fought for their rights

for a whole lot of things, being treated or looked

at as property by men.

Um, in the early part of, like the 1600 they

weren't allowed to have custody of their Children if they

would have gotten a divorce.

Um, they also didn't I mean, weren't allowed to own

property. And when they went to go foul for loans,

they had to file together because women were allowed to

fail. Now we move up in time, Um, which now

we're going to talk about the first wave.

The first wave begin or was known during the 19th

and the 20th century, where women was fighting for equal

rights and political rights.

Um, during this time, there was a woman by the

name of Susan B.

Anthony who fought for, um, economic Independence.

And there was another woman by the name of Elizabeth

Cady Stanton, who fought for child labor laws and women

having custody of their Children.

Also, during this time, there was other fights that were

taking place for, like the anti slavery and the rights

for women to not be looked at as property by

their husband, just to name some of the fights that

were taking place at this time.

And as we move through, you know, another decade or

a couple of decades, it was probably more than a

couple. Which brings us to the second wave in this

wave begin, which is more of all of our time

in the 19 sixties in the 19 seventies, and this

fight by women was created to recognize the women movement

before them and to create another movement.

This movement movement was created because women were still faced

with some oppression or, um, discrimination during this time.

So they fought for equality for all race in class

of women.

And they also fought along with civil right activists during

this time because at during this time, the civil rights

movement was also taken into place or being in effect.

Another thing that they fought for was reproductive right for

health. And we move on to the third wave.

And this time frame or time period happened in the

beginning, like the early nineties, where this time they focused

on the whole woman's domain, their sexuality, um, younger women

founding themselves and things like that.

The theory that I chose that will work best for

this population or group will be the feminist theory.

But the feminist theory, his best.

This grab as women rights across the globe by the

understanding of women not being treated fairly in all aspects

of society.

Mhm, um, this theory focused on gender discrimination within a

certain group, which that group will be women.

And this theory or feminist theory was also formulated in

the early 19 sixties sixties by a group of women

who had similar objectives.

Also, what I found was that social workers use this

theory to relate to gender equality for all people of

any race and gender.

Also, this theory have you also have a lot of

different perspective.

Perspective, for instance, that our book, um explains and a

couple of them theories that I also feel that relate

to feminist theory or two women is the liberal feminist

and postmodern feminists, and HDs represents something different.

Ah, liberal feminists believe that women should have the same

opportunities as men.

This means that they should have the same opportunities in

the workplace, um, equal pay's and also have equal responsibilities.

Postmodern feminists.

It, I mean go, is to weaken the, you know,

mel perspective of women that been created in society.

Two more have, like a basic understanding of the whole

social norm of women.

I believe if I'm saying that correctly.

But the postmodern feminists use research to back up, um,

gender norms or gender rose to use it for, like,

educational purpose, to make men and women have a better

understanding of all the views, and especially for men to

look at them more differently according to the information or

research that I have found some of the oppression.

Or, you know, the oppressive traditions that women have faced

have been in, like customer service fields, the health care

field and also in corporate offices.

And the customers customer service feel they felt that, Um,

even though men make up most of the workplace violence

like the homicide or being attack in customer service or

lower paying jobs, they found that women were more likely

to be attacked than men or were sometimes killed.

And that's the same thing in the healthcare field.

But in health care field, like these women in actually

in all different fields like women suffer from, I mean

suffer in the workplace with workplace violence from the people

that they are serving or domestic violence that spill into

work and things like that.

They also, um, when are also faced with oppression or

discrimination in corporate offices like sexual harassment or gender slurs

or, um, uh, inequality and the pay that they must

mean receive or just not being promoted just because they

are pregnant or taking a maternity leave like those things

are all caused by oppression.

Good because of some of the oppression that is found

in these workplaces for women.

They also found that it can cause in extreme harm

which meaning death, um, or have life changing events for

some reason.

I mean, for some women, this could be personal injury.

Ah, homicide, job loss and them not being able to

provide for their families.

Uh huh.

Some other factors that go along with or why, I

mean, why the reason not Why the reason?

I'm sorry.

But the reason why women face this type of discrimination

is because in a lot of jobs, males feel like

superior to women.

And when they don't they feel threatened.

Or like If women had a higher paying job or

higher pain role than them, they feel threatened.

And that can cause some discrimination or the gender slurs

or sexual harassment.

Some solutions that were found by the feminist Well, the

feminist theory, especially the postmodern theory, relates to the research

based on women and men.

They stay or through the research.

This can help by giving men and women and understanding

of gender.

I mean, gender rose social workers having an understanding based

on the research done also.

But this will help both genders understand.

Like I said before in earlier in earlier section of

this, that it will help both gender genders or men

and women have a better understanding of, you know, women

rose and men rose, but like, but they're equal, different

approaches that reviewed by this theory, were consciousness raising and

social activism.

Consciousness raising, um, can be held like in small groups

that is not lead by anyone, but more so that

everybody talked like a discussion for and they all share,

like personal experience or or personal experience in the workplace,

or like the type of discrimination they have have received

from other people.

Um, and social activism is like having peaceful protests, um,

speaking arrangements or even can be like writing letters to

a senator or a state legislator to

Women Rights in the United states

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