Feminist Beginnings

     I was happy to finally get to this part of history when women fight for the same rights as men. Thank you revolutions for helping women be seen as equals. The only negative thing to this is that it was not started earlier in history. It was only recently within the twentieth century that feminist thinking changed how women were being seen in the home to work and everything in between compared to men. But I also do have to agree with French women’s view instead of focusing on equality, women should focus on ““maternal feminism,” which requires women to watch over the futures of their children and gives women the right to intervene not only in all acts of civil life, but also in all acts of political life. (Strayer pg.521)” I personally think that maternal feminism would work out if we still lived like “leave it to Beaver,” but we don’t. Instead we have women who have partners, but still have to work to make ends meet. There is also all the single women out there, who would not be able just to live a life taking care of their children because who is going to take care of the women. We see it today many women are put in predicaments where they do not have a spouse or partner to help out with finances or the children. So for today’s society I will accept the focus of equality of men and women, but as we see it is not always the case. Men today still get paid more than woman, still hold the highest power in our government, and are biologically trained to be competitive with each other. In the case of equality women have ran for high government office and we see it more within these past ten years. Women are CEO’s and hold other high status employment positions, but biologically we are not bred to compete with each other, instead we are bred with a maternal instinct. So congrats to women around the world, and especially in the United States for fighting for our rights.