CIVIL RIGHTS:
THEN AND NOW
By Emma Gómez
Poignard
• Women confronted prohibition from
voting, property possession, and
numerous shapes of business.
Barriers in education, legislative
issues, and administration parts
held on for centuries. Impact was
felt most intensely by women of
HISTORICAL color, who confronted compounded
CONTEXT separation.
• Women like Rosa Parks and Ella Baker
played urgent parts within the 1950s and
1960s. Boundaries included lack of rise
to business openings, pay imbalance,
and constrained legitimate securities.
• Some connections are the challenges
confronted by black women due to
HISTORICAL covering racial and sexual orientation
CONTEXT separation.
T H E I S S U E T O D AY:
PROGRESS MADE
• Some discrimination issues have been
tended to since of The Equal Pay Act
of 1963, Title IX of 1972, and the
Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
• There is moreover a more noteworthy
representation of women in legislative
issues, education and the workforce.
• In conclusion the #MeToo movement
has moreover raised mindfulness
approximately harassment and
assault.
• Sexual orientation wage gap:
Women still win almost 82 cents
for each dollar earned by men.
• Underrepresentation in authority
THE ISSUE parts in commerce and
government.
T O D AY:
• Variations in healthcare get to and
D I S C R I M I N AT I results for women, particularly
O N T H AT G O black women.
ON
LEADERS THEN
Susan B.
Sojourner Truth: Rosa Parks: Fannie Lou
Anthony: She
She defended She was very
was a hero of Hamer: She was
women rights. important in
the suffrage an abolitionist
She was very civil rights
movement. and a civil rights
important in movement in
She wanted
civil rights USA. She was hero.
the abolition of
movement. an activist.
slavery. •
LEADERS NOW
Kamala
Tarana Harris: She is
Burke: She is the primary
Malala: She
the one who woman ever
fights for the
begun the to be chosen
instruction
movement of as vice
and freedom
MeToo, it president of
of women.
goes against the United
sexual States of
PROFILE OF
CURRENT LEADER
• Tarana Burke: She is the creator
of the movement of #MeTo.
Works as advocate for all the
survivors of sexual abuse and
assault. And she works trying
to create a systemic change
and for raising awareness
about gender violence.
• NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR
WOMEN (NOW): It defends lots
of things like reproductive
O R G A N I Z AT I O
rights, salarial equality, and
NS LEADING
the end of harassment. They
THE CHARGE organize campaigns to
augment women’s
representation in the ambit of
politics. They also give funds
for confluent feminism.
M Y TA K E A W AY
• Women had made lots of important advances in
equality, but still fight systemic discrimination.
• HAS THE GOAL BEEN ACCOMPLISHED? No,
some challenges like salarial gap and gender
violence still go on.
• WHAT CAN WE DO? Encourage politics that
guarantees the salarial equality and the
protection of workplace. We can also augment
funding for education and healthcare programs
for women. And encourage people to make a
change through education and awareness
campaigns.
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