Do most contemporary women just take for granted....?

Question

...the fruits borne, years ago, by other women's hard-fought battles for equality in the workplace, against sexual harassment, etc??

hala L: So many seem to have a problem with non-feminists...I'm not one of them. To each his own. This question just came up to my mind and I think it's better than others fruitless, disparaging posts out there.
Having said that, I thank you for your answer.

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kate lomax: I tried to detect mockery in your answer, but failed miserably. Perhaps is because I'm tired, you're losing your touch or you just actually gave an straight answer, which I find hard to believe.
Having said that...you know the rest.

Answer 1

I think we women do often take for granted the hard fought battles of women that worked hard for our rights. I don't stop to think of the hard work these women did to fight for these rights, either. I think it is a shame that people in today's society often don't think of all the work put in for all of us for many rights we have, not just the ones you listed, but also for freedom of speech and all the others we take for granted. It reminds me so much of my own children. They take the privileges that I allow them and the rights that I give them, for granted as if they should just have those and don't stop to realize that these are not God given rights and privileges. I love your question. (I just want to add that I wish more people would take advantage of our right to vote. This was a hard fought right for women, especially. Also, if our military weren't always protecting us the way they do, we might not be in the free country that we are now in, and not be able to have this freedom and right.)

Answer 2

I don't think so. Because honestly, women are still fighting for equal rights under the laws, women still don't make as much as men do, and women are still seen as sexual objects for male gratification. There has been a lot of progress but there is a long way to go at the same time! Most contemporary honor and respect the strong women that came before us that fought so we can control if we have children or not, to get a divorce from a abusive husband, to have the right to vote and to even wear pants! But this country has a long way to go!

Answer 3

Why do so many seem to have a problem with some women being non-feminist? Or even against all or part of the movement?
You know some of what they did was good---some was not! In some ways the movement caused us to lose the strength of the family and complicated our society.
Either way there's no reason that everyone should be expected to want to be associated with the movement.

Answer 4

I am old so I remember how bad it was and appreciate the improvements.
I wouldn't have worked in a shipyard in the 70's when was offered an apprenticeship but now I do and it isn't anything like it was then. My dad, ex and brother worked in shipyards so I knew what they did to women and I wasn't willing to fight that battle.
I was physically man handled at work in the 60s and I don't think complaining would have solved the problem, I just avoid him in the future and quit other jobs when it got bad. Now a woman can keep her job without a problem.

Answer 5

I don't think so. Life is a struggle. And we are all fighting. But, at least we have the ability to.
We still have a lot to accomplish! Women still don't make as much as men. And, sexual harassment goes on and on. I don't think we take it for granted, but sadly still struggle every day. And, in my experience, the higher up the ladder you climb, the more you have to fight against it.

Answer 6

No but I think its probably because I know personally what it was like before the women's lib movement of the late 60's to the present. And it makes me more appreciative of those women who struggled long before I was born to give us the vote, the right to own property & rights that I can't think of off-hand.

And lets not forget that because of these women, women began to think that they could be more than homemakers, nurses & teachers or secretaries -- if they wanted to be.

Answer 7

Look at the turn out of female voters, that should answer your question. Barely 50% of eligible women actually vote.

Answer 8

i will think of of many women who exercised their capability of autonomy against the pressures of the society they lived in - and paid a value for it one way or yet another. Eleanor of Aquitaine is composed of innovations. however the same old female does not have the wealth or connections to do this. i've got faith the rationalization in the back of no longer having freedom of affiliation comes from the mothering ingredient. whilst mothering, women are somewhat weakened or compromised and remember on their mate to maintain them going - very corresponding to a fowl on a nest relies upon on her mate to grant the worms. men do no longer pick to artwork to feed yet another male's offspring - it is going against nature. A male needs his very own offspring to be dominant. So, one among 2 issues happens: the two the male retains a particular watch on his woman to make particular all offspring are his very own, or, if she chooses freedom of affiliation, the female unearths herself looking after the offspring by myself, devoid of male help. those behaviors are got here upon all around the animal kingdom - with the dominant men desirous to mate with each and every of the girls human beings, and the girls human beings desirous to mate with purely the dominate men. women have continually had the choice to grow to be celibate. they're observed as nuns or witches or priestesses - each and every custom has it somewhat is very own. it somewhat is the liberty of sexuality it somewhat is threatening.

Answer 9

No.
Most women of today recognise the struggle women in the past took to ensure equality of equal opportunity.

Answer 10

No, because those battles are still very much raging.