Discuss the gender issue with respect to its political expression in long answer
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1The First Wave of feminism in the United States culminated in 1920, when the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. After this great success, the movement went into decline until its Second Wave, in the 1960s and 1970s. The prevailing principle of the Second Wave was that of equality between men and women (Weedon 14). Feminist historian Estelle Β. Freedman thus defined the essence of feminism: "Feminism is a belief that women and men are inherently of equal worth. Because most societies privilege men as a group, social movements are necessary to achieve equality between men and women" (Freedman 7).1
2 A proposed amendment must be ratified by three quarters of the state legislatures in the country, i (...)
This Amendment read: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex" (Davis 29). The Amendment was adopted by Congress in 1972, but it was never ratified by enough states to be inscribed in the Constitution.2 This failure was largely due to the activism of anti-feminist conservative groups whose leaders were mostly women. Today, these 1970s anti-feminist leaders have been replaced by a new generation of conservative women who continue the historical fight of the American Right against feminism.
3The fundamental notion behind the feminist movement, that of gender equality, also lies at the core of conservative anti-feminism. Comparing the interpretation of the idea of gender equality by anti-feminist women in the 1970s and by anti-feminist women today is very revealing: it shows that even though American conservatism has consistently opposed feminism for 40 years, it has failed to do so in any coherent ideological manner.
american women were didin't have rights, but now they do and they get paid same as a man depending on their qualification and what type of jobs they do. women in the middle east are being opressed and don't have the freedom to take of their hijab in public
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women in our sample expressed lower levels of confidence in their political capabilities and their ability to participate successfully in group-discussion settings. The logic of the relationship between confidence and power holds that gender is socially constructed such that women have less authority and
thus less confidence, especially in areas that implicate public authority, in their ability to be authoritative. Whether because of sensitivity to negative feedback or because of a general tendency toward
lower efficacy in areas of public speaking or political decision-making, the lower the person’s selfconfidence, the less likely she is to engage in assertive acts in a decision-making group. This pattern
of gendered authority would show up most strongly in situations where women’s status is low, where
the social sanctions from women asserting authority would be the highest.
Following this logic, we asked the participants a series of Likert-style questions about their political efficacy (“I feel that I have a pretty good understanding of the important political issues facing us
today” and “Sometimes politics and the government seem so complicated that a person like me can’t