Women's Suffrage Parade of 1913 and Todays Women's March
The Women's Suffrage Parade of 1913 started with a parade on Washington D.C. to walk for women's rights the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. Today is the 104 anniversary of the Women's Suffrage Parade and it is national women's day! The Suffrage Parade was initially to fight for our right to vote. When women were walking through the streets over a hundred years ago they were walking for constitutional rights. Today we are still marching throughout the streets for our rights.
This year the day after President Trumps inauguration, there was the Women's March on Washington which marched all throughout the streets for women's rights. This happened in cities all over the world. It is crazy to think that we still, over a hundred years later, have to march and protest for our rights. In 1913 women were marching for basic rights and today we are marching for things like reproductive rights, religious equality, workers rights, LGBTQ rights and many more.
Why do we have to still march over a hundred years later and how long will it take for equal rights? At this point we may never end up having equal rights. Is it because of our democratic system or that people feel threatened or lesser of women? It is important that we keep marching for our rights until we ALL have equal rights. When we march, it is certain that our voices are heard and we are not giving up this fight.
I really enjoy this perspective on the different Women's movements. With all the backlash women get for being feminists and fighting for equality, its always so inspiring and empowering to see women throughout the country continue to stand up for themselves and others. Its hard for women to accept when people say "you already have equality," when viagra is covered under insurance and tampons are still a "luxury item." Just obnoxious really.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to see that, even though we have come so far as a society since 1913, we still have a ways to go. Even though it has been 100 years, and there has been substantial progress for women's rights since then, there is still much resistance towards more equality. When looking at the anti-suffragist propaganda, it is clear that the arguments against women's rights have remained virtually unchanged, even after all this time. Many people today speak poorly of feminists, claiming they are merely overreacting or being oversensitive, that they resort to feminism because they are ugly or unloved and so they decide they hate men. these straw man arguments have not changed, and represent the mentalities of those who resist any and all change, especially change that threatens the opinions they hold of others.
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