Womens Issues

Is there really no progress in women's rights?

I have to ask some wrestling questions to ask today. (please answer)?

Help me find a song for my project PLEASE?

Is prostitution anti-womens rights or pro-womens rights?

Are we encouraging women to become fatter in society? Are we saying its ok to be fat?

Craft Idea needed---HELP!!?

I'm starting a womens faith group...?

was France right to ban the body-face veil/burqa thing ?

Is this country really so brainwashed into thinking that anyone bigger than a size 10 is fat?

The the US, Great Britain and Australia, the protests of the 1970s which campaigned for equality of opportunity, domestic safety and reproductive rights won most of their battles. Most states have passed equal opportunity laws that regulate the workplace. The UN declaration of womens rights has been used as a framework to enact various laws that serve to protect women against physical violence. More subtle changes, such as the right to a hold a bank account, or to drink in a bar have also been won. The main focus of feminism now is arguably one of policy making. HR departments, NGOs, thinktanks all now consider how the rights and laws of women should affect procedures such as recruitment, workplace discrimination, salary awards and a raft of other issues. As feminism has moved from protest to policy making, has it remained true to its ideals?

Judging by the dogmas and literature leading figures and galeons figures of feminism published, yes it has.

Abso-bloody-lootely! What else are we gonna do with all that hard-fought-for post grad education?! :) Policy making is the freakin' pinnacle. It can't just be left up to one gender to devise the best policies for families and the disadvantaged. You make real changes from the inside. Protesters are the outsiders. ...although some more gender balance is still needed in politics. Women aren't exactly overrepresented. It's a hard slog for a mum who's taken time out of her career to jump back up the ladder and reclaim her position, and then some more when the mindless critics call her fat, unfashionable, unfeminine and ugly (unless she's a corrupt dimwit spunk like Palin, and then we're all suddenly "jealous", hahaha)

I don't think "choices" are high on the agenda. "We have legislation called positive discrimination, I see it as a drive to have a 50/50 male female ratio in the workforce. I don't see any legislation to get men out of the workforce and into the domestic position (not that any government is ever going to retire its taxpayers!) Now all men work so in order to have that 50/50 split all women have to work too. So this romantic "choices" idea which sounds very nice and reasonable is just not going to happen. So, it would appear that an objective of modern feminism is to get rid of the housewife altogether so it can achieve this 50/50 ratio. This is despite the fact that the majority of women would like to be housewives at some point in their lives. We are looking at the forced extinction of the housewife. So it doesn't seem to be about women at all, so what is it really about? Bankers, war, consumerism, globalism... any other ideas?"

I'm not sure really what direction feminism is going now, but I'd hope it's to bring these same basic rights to the countries that don't yet have them. I know of organizations that I assume have feminist backing or involvement that are bringing sexual education, academic education, and basic human rights to light in those countries, and apparently initiating action because some changes are beginning to happen. I'd hope that those things would be seen as more dire than fine tuning what we have in countries where we do have the majority of our rights as women. If not, then I can most definitely see where people would be disappointed, and even angry toward feminism. Hope that's not the case and it's more than slightly sad that I don't already know what the 'agenda' is currently =/

They use the advantage of shame. Feminism gets its way through the inculcation of shame. Here is the lever, the engine of modern social control: a lever that can be operated only by or on behalf of women. For, when we were tiny, it was our mothers who convinced us that we were unworthy except when we pleased them, no good unless we had their approval. The deep sense of shame that was planted in the psyches of both boys and girls, that I call the mother wound, now provides the means for feminists to effectively control every area of social power. Male--and female--legislators, judges, academics, managers, all re-experience those intense feelings of shame and unworthiness they felt as children, when angry women say or imply that they are bad. Indeed, their whole lives have been built around reassuring themselves that they are worthy through good works, public accomplishment or financial success. However, none of these external defenses can stand for long against feminist shaming if the inner psyche still carries the mother wound, still gives to Woman the ultimate power to determine its worth. Just how powerful is shame as a coercive technique? Powerful, wealthy men gave up their lives to save those of women and children on the Titanic in 1912. Why? Because of the shame they would feel as a coward, if they didn't. In wartime, average men will run directly into machine gun fire, knowing they will die a meaningless death, rather than face the shame they would feel if they fled the battle. Shame is the most intense psychological pain we can feel. We usually prefer to die. It's that big. Men must recognize this lever and resist the temptation to lay down in front of an onslaught that has proven to be ruinous to the family, to children both born and unborn and to our social fabric as a whole.

Feminist policy making has gone far past seeking equality, which was achieved at least 20 years ago. The policies of the last 20 years have only sought superior rights and advantages.

i believe it has - it still seeks equality. those that think we gained equality are sorely mistaken. no country on earth has achieved equality. while we may have domestic violence laws, we still have a problem with punishing batterers and rehabilitating them (dv has a high recidivism rate) and prevention. what have we achieved? fewer men are killed b/c services have had the most success in removing women from the home & preventing HER from killing HIM. the rate of injury and homicide for women has not gone down. batterers OFTEN get custody - 58,000 kids are placed into unsupervised care of abusers each year. rape is still a major issue as is stalking (which just occured to me on friday night - petrifying to feel like prey). sexual harassment is still a big issue. i was harassed in the workforce, reported it, and the retaliation was worse than the harassment. we still face discrimination in construction. we cant be priests. we have low representation in decision maknig postiions and nobody sees the need for better child care and MORE HELP at home from our spouses. we are still treated like bimbos on tv and movies. women must dance, sing and be sexy. men must simply sing. you see videos glamorizing pimps. guys with 2 or 3 women on their arms b/c one women is simply not enough we have such low value. IMO, we need another wave of feminism. i have been repeatedly offended by comments on the bus this week as well as that stalking incident. if these issues had happened to blacks, there would be uproar - rightly so -b/c it occurs to women (daily) it's treated as normal. there have been 2 horrendous cases of violence towards women this past week in the paper. the comment section? maybe 20 or 30 comments, mostly from women. if it were agst blacks or on another issue, this paper usually gets hundreds of comments. women are incredibly undervalued in sociey. more policy is needed. we should not have to live like this. i have had friends raped, missing, stalked, harassed. it is beyond my imagination that society puts up with this. women's issues dont get sufficient funding; our issues are continuously trivialized and put on the back burner for the more important issues - war and terrorism. what about the war against women? what about the conservatives war on reproduction? what about the terrorism we face at home and in family court?