Women's Movement Knowledge
As stated in my last blog I wasn’t ever really too informed with what has happened with the women’s movement unless it was taught to me in a history class back in high school. The two biggest accomplishments that I can remember learning about were the women getting the right to vote in 1920 and Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat in the front of a bus in 1955. Other things such equal pay rights and protests and things of that nature were taught as well, but not nearly as in depth. Looking back on it though I feel as though they were not taught correctly or details were left out. When you learn about women getting the right to vote you never really hear about what they had to go through to get there. The fights that started, the arrests that were made, and the stuff the women actually had to go through to get that right are never really brought up. As one of the clips we watched said……we were taught as if the rights were just given to them not that they had to work their butts off and sacrifice to get it. It just seems as though we are leaving out necessary details when being taught about these things, which ultimately doesn’t allow us to grasp the concept completely or be able to fully understand what it was like for women to live through those horrible times.
They need to teach us more in schools about this issue if it ever wants to have a chance to work. Why not teach us things like the fact that not until 1978 was a law passed that protected pregnant women from getting fired from their job only because they were pregnant or that it wasn’t until 1980 that the US Census decided it was appropriate to say that women could be the head of the household instead of men. Most people might not think that those two issues are a very big deal, but the truth is they are. It’s scary to think that we just neglect the “little things� involving this issue when in all reality those two issues right there could be a couple of the most important steps for the women’s movement. Until we as a society decide that it is appropriate to learn about these things and to teach these things in schools when children are at a younger age I don’t feel as though much more will change. Without knowing what has really happened to women and is still happening to women today nobody will have the proper knowledge to help them fix the problems and make the world a better place for them.
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