Women in Reform Movements

Mainly the author wrote about how women have suported and promoted many movementsagainst injustices, like improve education, to initiate prison reform, to ban alcoholic drinks, and to free slaves.
Maybe the last one was beacause many women saw them selves in the slave position, both were expected to be passive, cooperative, and obedient to their master-husbands.
Also many men supported the right of women to talk in public about those kind of matters.

In my opinion women have always been supporting many good causes in favor of the less fortunate ones, and also have been promoting improvements and developing of methods ans systems that would make better humankind.

Feminist Philosophies

The author wrote how women have protested againts the limitation of woman capacity in all fields of life just beacuase of their sex. Politically, many feminists believed that a cooperative society based on socialist economic principles would respect the rights of women. And the result of these endless protest was that more young women than ever were going to school, and living by themselves in city apartments.


In my opinion a feminism not so extreme is good, because is an idiology that is centrated in beliefs of equality between women and men in society and professionals roles.
But when it comes about extreme feminism I don't like it, because I think that there is a reason or propouse why we are differents

Women in Politics

Mainly the author wrote about the evolution of woman position in US politic, but also mentionates the principal hierarchy achivements  of women in global histor'; like the first president women in the world who was Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka.

I think that women are gainig more credibility in the political field and having more important roles in it; because everyone is realizing that women can do the same or better work than men in politics.

Women at Work

The author explains the evolution of women work position, this iniciates with the only acceptable occupations for them as domestic work, factory labor and teaching. The increse of preparation for professions prevented many young women to entering professional careers; but when special colleges for women started to appear, the percent of professional women, like lawyers, managers and engineer increased.
Another problem came when professional women did not get the important assignments and promotions given to their male colleagues, either their preparation, their marital status or their social level.

Well, I think that nowadays there isn't that much discrimination, women are allowed tho have any career they want and can reach as high positions as they want; but it remains some discrimination in some "professions" that still are consider as men work, like that women can't be president or something like that; but we're working on it!

The Weaker Sex?

The author says that women have always been considerer the weaker sex and because of that, historically they have been given with what men consider no strength jobs, when actually there are not; and that resulted as a high tolerance for pain, more resistance to diseases and longer lives.
The text mentioned the social rol of women according with the biological function of giving birth and getting married in past eras, removing the oportunity of look for another roles; even when women had the oportunity to have a profetional life, family and society pressures made them decline different expectations.
But this barrier have been broken over time with facilities making women be part of society by other roles.

I think that the author is right saying that society and family historically had been kept away from many oportunities of personal and profesional growing; but nowadays we think out of the box being capables of take our destiny in our hands and make whatever we want to do and not what we supposed to do because the society say so.

The Legal Status of Women

The author wrote about at first intance women weren't allowed to keep their individual properties if they got married even the custody of their childrens; but this evolved and equity law allowed married women to own property separate from their husbands and to sue her husband but men still had control of children.
Women began working outside their homes with really bad conditions, then the goverment started to limit her working hours and improve working conditions of women but these laws also restricted women working rights giving the chance to women discrimination to start. This discrimination passed through work to other fields of life like welfares, credits, crime, prostitution, etc.

I think that the status of women in law has always been contradictory unlike men, when it comes about bank facilities, legal or work rights, women are complete restricted of this; but when we talk about punishments of any kind, women are the ones who recive the worst with out any contemplation.

i think tat even nowadays, if a men kill a women is a horrible homicide, but if a women kill a men is a favor 2 humandkind! hahaha ^^

Early Attitudes Toward Women

In the text the author talks about the hostorically value of women according to men. Women have always been viewed as intellectually inferiors and a kind of evil source temptation, and even it had been considered that the only life rol of women is conception and nothing more.

At first instance women in East wasn´t prived of individual property and  freedom by getting married, but as some cultures envolved, like Hinduism, this changed requiring obedience of women toward men and privated of own properties or individual right of expression.

But when women were allowed personal and intellectual freedom, women made significant achievements playing important roles in religious and political life that have influaciated the eras of men since there; having for example Queen Elizabeth of England, Catherine the Great of Russia, and Queen Victoria of England in the 19th century.

 

I think that all that the author said is true, women have always been viewed as "something" insignificant  and something not to care about in religion, culture and aristocratic.

In my opinion the 3 women that the author refers are very good examples of all the incredible things that women can do when men are not around.