Women's History
As I am growing up, I've started to ask myself about the history of women and sometimes it makes me sad, when I look at how people used to treat women. Everyone deserves to learn that it wasn’t all happy sunshine. We lived in a world that was quite upsetting and unfair.
In the 1800’s women were not allowed to vote or make important decisions, such as making contracts, or having their own property. In those times women were looked down upon and were said to need a man to be important, they didn't even get a proper education.
I'm sure you still don't see my point, but young girls like myself need to know not to take our lives for granted. We need to have respect for our elders, and to know how lucky we are to have education and a chance for success.
There might be people who believe that we don't need to understand the history of women's rights. However, I believe it is important for all women and girls to reflect on the change over history so they can draw inspiration from the strength of those brave women, who made change.
So far I haven't seen anyone actually care about this important part of our history. As it seems people don't understand that we were basically slaves for the men.
Women should be entitled to live in freedom and with the same rights as men! Truthfully I believe, women for years have not been thanked enough for fighting for women’s rights. Another point is that schools teach about Aboriginal history and that's great and all but what about Women's history? Man! Even the name ‘Women’ has men in it!
Sure we have ‘Women’s day’, but that still doesn’t change much, some people don’t even celebrate or even remember Women’s day! What about the times where women needed permission from their husbands to go out, go to work or even just to go grocery shopping!
It's not like it's only back then, it happens in the cities we live in where little girls are being sold off to older men. These girls are forced to marry at 6-16 years of age and are being harassed. Some people think this is ok!? This is outrageous!
Another point is that women have always been second, for example in chess, women are said to protect the king and the king is the most important piece!
Something else that is outrageous is how when women got married they were expected to get their partners last name as their own. Sometimes I think it is bad that when a mother and father have just a daughter and their daughter gets married, their last name can’t go down generations anymore. However, with sons they can marry a woman and still have their last name go down generation to generation.
In some countries women still don’t have modern rights, for example Afghanistan for their lack of educated girls, and their lack of women’s safety.
CONCLUSION
Today I was here to show how important women’s history is and how schools should educate children for them to have a brighter understanding of the past and to make a better future.
By Tiffany P
Authors Message:
Hi I’m Tiffany in 5/6FP, and I decided that this topic would help me develop my author's voice in class which has been a focus during writing this term. But the main reason I've chosen this topic is because I was passionate about how people still don’t get treated the way they deserve to be. This links to my inquiry topic this term where I have been learning how people still face racism. Feminism, like racism, still occurs today and I want people to understand that both of these things must stop! So I hope writing this might raise awareness in my community, and make people reflect on how to treat others.
