Since the dawn of social consciousness, women have been viewed as less. For years, women’s roles in society were to cook, clean, bear children, and adhere to their husband’s needs. Women were the proletariat of the sexes. That was until the women’s suffrage movement took its stage. Historically, the women’s suffrage movement began in 1848, when a women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Although this was not the first meeting concerning the rights of women, historians and activists claim this was the meeting that launched it all. The women’s rights movement was based on the notion that women are equal to men, simply deserving the same rights offered to a man.
Before the 21st century modern era, this was a foreign feeling. Nonetheless, women proceeded and fought for their rights. The coined phrase ‘she believed she could, so she did’ is evident to the women’s right movement. Women, nationwide, believed in themselves so strongly, that they that started a whole movement and a lasting term for years to come. Without the auspicious and prodigious, who faced the public with fierce red, white, and blue eyes for the American dream, women’s rights, as they are today, may not exist. We owe much to the women of the women’s suffrage movement.
Fast forward to contemporary day America, women are still fighting. For example, the equal pay for equal work act was launched to ensure that women receive the same pay as their male counterparts. Moreover, women are still told what they must do with their bodies. For instance, many political candidates and those in office, reach out hard to overturn Roe v. Wade. It is mostly men who attempt who are taking a crack at this.
Often, the term feminism is seen as a ‘cancer to society’ and that women believe that they are superior to men. Which is nowhere near the case, feminism is a form of ‘equalism’, nothing else. It was named feminism because women were so discriminated against, that they needed their own word. Women were and always will be equal to men, for feminism equals ‘equalism.’