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Feminism

by TEAM D - Kiko Corpuz and Nicole Berina

Gender Equality

Refers to the view that men and women should receive equal treatment, and should not
be discriminated against based on gender, unless there is a sound biological reason for
different treatment.

The objective of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which seeks
to create equality in law and in social situations, such as in democratic activities and
securing equal pay for equal work.

Achieved when women and men enjoy the same rights and opportunities across all
sectors of society, including economic participation and decision-making, and when the
different behaviours, aspirations and needs of women and men are equally valued and
favoured.

Birth of Feminism
1. First-wave feminism - Legal rights (right to vote and property)

A period of feminist activity during the 19th and early 20th century throughout the world,
particularly in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States.

Focused on legal disabilities, primarily on gaining women's suffrage (the right to vote)
and property rights.

Some claimed that women were morally superior to men, and so their presence in the
civic sphere would improve public behavior and the political process.

2. Second-wave feminism - Civil rights movement (sexuality and reproductive rights)

Began in the early 1960s in the United States, and eventually spread throughout the
Western world and beyond.

Broadened the debate to a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace,
reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities.

Drew attention to domestic violence and marital rape issues, establishment of rape crisis
and battered women's shelters, and changes in custody and divorce law.

began with protests against the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City in 1968 and 1969.
Feminists parodied what they held to be a degrading "cattle parade" that reduced
women to objects of beauty dominated by a patriarchy that sought to keep them in the
home or in dull, low-paying jobs. The radical New York group called the Redstockings
staged a counter pageant in which they crowned a sheep as Miss America and threw
"oppressive" feminine artifacts such as bras, girdles, high-heels, makeup and false
eyelashes into the trashcan.

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