How Has Feminism Impacted the World

How Has Feminism Impacted the World

Feminism has helped many women around the world, it helped them gain confidence, pride courage, inspiration, hope, help others and much more. One of the results we had from this movement which certainly helped, was women's suffrage. On United States, Canada and some Latin nations women's right to vote was given before the World War II. This movement also encouraged celebrities to stand up for feminism as well to encourage it's fans. Examples are Beyonce, her song "Run the World" inspired many women. Rowan Blanchard which wrote an essay about intersectional feminism and was named as feminist celebrity of the year with Amandla Stenberg. Kurt Cobain which called out people who hate people of a different color, homosexual or women should not buy his records and not go at his concerts. Emma Watson which supported HeforShe and made an amazing speech ( speech). David Schwimmer which is the director of a centre for rape victims in California and many more celebrities which speak up for gender inequality.

Feminism helped women to have for open doors to work on places most recognized as "men" jobs by society. Such as politics and physical jobs, like basketball, soccer, volleyball, etc players, fighters and many more. Now women have access for birth control, reproductive health care and safe and easy abortion, which is reproductive rights, women are now allowed to own property and can divorce. Feminists also helped laws against : rape, sexual harassment and child molestation. Yes feminism has already helped a lot the world, but that doesn't mean we still don't have stuff to change and conquer.

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Ted Talk - Leymah Gbowee

Women Against Feminism

       Most of the women in the world are feminists, and want equal rights for men and women but some don't. The non-feminisms started a movement called, "Women against feminism."  Women who participate in the movement take a selfie with a paper in front of them explaining why they are against feminism.  A blogger analyzed a week of posts on Women against Feminism blog and found out that 46 percent of women were egalitarian in other words had the belief on equality. The blogger also found out that 19 percent supported men's issues, and 12 percent criticized feminist intolerance toward to different opinions or sentiment. Only about 23 percent  of women thought about  views,  like for example different sexes. 
        Some people commented that women who refuses to be feminists are not well guided. Pro-equality women sometimes think that the meaning of feminism is not "the belief that men and women should have equal rights" according to Merriam Webster, this women think that the real meaning of feminism is female advantages, privilege, caring only about women, but they are all wrong we only want equal rights, sometimes people over react.
    
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Types of Feminism

Even though revolving around the same topic, Feminism is divided in a variety of types.

Intersectional Feminism

Feminism and Intersectional Feminism

Living As a Woman Around the World

Living As a Woman Around the World

We all know women's rights differ from place to place, but we don't talk about it often enough. Here is how a woman lives in 4 different countries: Iceland, Egypt, U.S.A. and Mexico.

Child Marriage

Child marriage is still a major issue on various places like Niger, Central African Republic, in lots of places in India, and many others. Child marriage is usually forced by their families, by the reason that it might help their family economically or is by tradition passed generation to generation. Girls usually between 10-17 years old are obligated to marry. Girls at eleven marry to men much older than them, adults. Others marry with a guy around their age. These young kids have to drop out of school and give up on their dreams of a successful career, most get out in middle school so they can focus on their families and how to be an average wife. This also prevents early pregnancies, females at such a young age are already found with the average of two kids, this can also lead to early death of the mom during birth or neurological or physical problems with the baby.
Child marriage adds to gender inequality girls should be able to decide whom to marry and when to have kids. Some are sexually assaulted by their husbands or verbally, physically or emotionally violated.