We swore never again and yet, we have had more shootings on school campuses since. I don't want to send my children to school and fear it will be the last time I see them. I believe women are deserving of reproductive healthcare and preventive cancer treatment. One in three women are physically abused by an intimate partner in the U. One in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college.
I believe my children should be free to pursue their educations without sustaining trauma for the rest of their lives. I don't believe my marriage to my husband should be any more valid than if I married a woman. I strongly believe everyone deserves the right to marry whomever they love and have a family. I believe healthcare is a right, not a privilege. I don't believe thousands of Americans like me deserve to needlessly die due to a lack of coverage.
I believe children deserve care whether or not they were born disabled or into poverty. I don't believe in these principles because I'm a liberal, Democrat or feminist. I believe in these issues because I possess a certain level of common sense and human decency.
I marched with my own mother surrounded by strong women whose voices demand to be heard. We're not backing down because a few knuckle-dragging Neanderthals on the Internet called us names. The spirit of the Women's March and feminism is inclusive, compassionate, patriotic, supportive and powerful. It's not about division, attacks or hurling insults at others.
We may be nasty women in terms of our anger, passion and perseverance. But we're not mean, hateful or vindictive. Don't believe a false narrative that tells you otherwise.
Feminism is not a dirty word. Nobody likes to admit it, but money runs our lives and achieving our own economic agency is not only empowering, but allows us to independently lead the lives we have the right to.
When it comes to making a name for ourselves, being present in every industry and living off our own money is so integral to equality. Since many stay-at-home mothers do not have their own income, their choices can seem like an intentional decision to diminish their full potential.
At all. However, when women who are stay at home wives and mothers are in situations where they cannot maximize their potential as humans because of compulsive or forced social andor political reasons , their obligation of standard gender roles does become a problem. Taking away feminism from women who opt to nurture their family is like saying people who choose to be vegan, despite an array of meat and dairy products they could have, are not receiving the full culinary experience of life you believe they should.
It was prejudiced of me to jump to such conclusions, but for most of us it takes some time to weed out the societal conditioning when adopting new forms of activism.
Think about every article, listicle, or tweet that champions chronic singleness at the expense of relationships or marriages. But the common denominator amongst all of this is choice. Wage equality allows us to choose a career in which we are justly rewarded for the work we put in, thus allowing us to live a balanced life. Positive body image allows us to choose how we want to look without any restrictions. Efficient policing against sexual harassment is relieving in the knowledge that women are choosing sex that involves consent and mutual respect.
So if feminism allows us freedom and accessibility, why should it be any different for women who choose to be homemakers? They know that they have the freedom to pursue any path they want, and that with any choice will come sacrifice. For those of us who find our fulfillment through our careers, we are sacrificing time that could be spent with friends or family.
In this instance, a higher institution of power is confining her to motherhood and forbidding her basic rights such as education. All of this strikes me as laughably ironic, considering women are abandoning careers because of inadequate options to feasibly merge childcare and work. Of course, this is unfair to all women, whether they want children or not. For example, I felt that if women were continuing to bypass careers for a family, it might reflect negatively on the women who are choosing to live and work independently, and thereby threaten their credibility in the workplace.
And we are all a little bit guilty of not taking heed of that. We need to relinquish the notion that certain women are more deserving of feminism than others.
And, it is not a clear-cut issue, just as many of the beliefs we may hold exist on a spectrum and ideas evolve over time. Recent surveys by Yahoo News and the Huffington Post show that a majority of women hold the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities, which is essentially the definition of feminism.
Some may even go as far as arguing a woman who chooses to stay home with her children instead of pursuing a job outside the home is anti-feminist. But while many women are leaning into a career, some are choosing to opt out and put their energy elsewhere once they become mothers.
Is one choice more feminist than the other? Being a feminist and a stay-at-home mom are not mutually exclusive. When it comes to how we choose to parent and raise our children, many of us are constantly questioning what is best for our family.
The reality is that the pay gap exists and as much as women are working to close it, you have to make the choice of what is best for you and your family. Many of us were raised in a time when girls were finally being told we could be anything we wanted to be when we grew up.
Yes, you can be a doctor, an artist, a teacher, or a business executive, but one can also choose to focus on mothering at home.
Thanks to the first few waves of feminism, women have many more opportunities today than previous generations. Having a career is not the only way women and men should be seen as equals. Gender roles can still be challenged when a woman chooses to stay home.
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