Why does our society still feminism in the 21th Century?You would think when women gained equal voting rights with men in the 20th Centaury, they would be seen as equal citizenssadly, tis untrue, gender stereotypes are still as evident which after all isn?t THAT surprising. Women all around the world are still treated unequal to men for no apparent reason apart from the fact they are a different gender compared to the dominant race. There have been improvements to try and close the gender gap and without history feminist movements nobody would know how women would cope now, however the gap is still significant. Women still face economic, political and social issues and barriers, which feminists try to tackle.Before the First World War, women were seen as too emotional and fragile for politics and it was unseen for any woman to be in politics until until 1919, when Nancy Astor took a seat in House of Commons as an MP, when women didn?t even achieve equal voting rights. In 1979 Margaret Fetcher became the first and only female prime minister who was voted the 4th greatest prime minister of the 20th Centaury who also served the longest which was seen as a big achievement in UKs political historynearly 60 years later after the equal voting rights act. However since Margaret Fetcher there was no other female prime minister. The political gap is the biggest one, with only over 20% women being in political empowerment. Since the begging of the 20th Centaury there has been progress, 1 in 5 members of the Parliament are women however thstatists do not match women?s population, even when women make up over half of the population, tindicates that although women had made progress, women in politics are still no where near men?s working numbers. Only 4 women, out of 23 men are cabinet ministers. Even with the slight but better than nothing progress, in the last 15 years the female presentation only increased by about 4%. So, how is it that women are supposed to be portrayed as equal to men, when even the number of women sitting in the Government does not match the UK?s female population. We do nfeminism, the definition of feminism is to provide equality of sexes, even in politics and as long as women are unrepresented in the Government, tinequality will go on.It was always unheard of women to be paid equally to men in history, in Britain women doing the same job as men were paid as little as half of the earnings. All around the world, there hasn?t been a country yet that closed the pay gap between men and women. According to the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap index 2014, out of all the countries women in Iceland are doing the best when it comes to the economy gender gap, however UK falling on the 26th place on the rank and Pakistan on the 141 place. Women on average are more likely to get better grades than men, meaning they should get the best jobs however even when the work in the same job as men they still only earn about 80% of an average mans pay. Out of the top 100 companies in the UK 96% of the heading leaders are men. Tcould be explained by the term glass ceiling where women have reached the top but still can?t quite get there; and although according to Mary Honeyball a member of the gender equality committee, the glass ceiling has been cracked but not broken. There has been progress, with the Equal Pay Act in 1970 to abolish the pay inequality between sexes and a Sex Discrimination Act 1975 that was put to abolish all kind of inequality between men and women however the gap is still significantly evident. The Equality Act of 2010 made it a legal obligation to treat every employee equally however failed with the over 17% pay gap. Women are still gender stereotyped and are still seen in some parts of society as housewives who should stay at home, cook and look after the children, they are also stereotyped out of certain jobs such as engineering and head business directors. Efforts made by the government to close the gap have seen to made little change however still an improvement of what it was a centaury ago. We still nfeminism, the pay gap isn?t looking to be closing any time soonaccording to the World Economic Forum the gap will take over 80 years to close worldwidetshows that women are still not equal on economics terms.In the 21st Centaury we still nfeminism because; 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted since the age of 16, jokes about rape are still an everyday occurrence, women are still taught to be the one?s preventing themselves from rape when in fact it should be taught not to rape and view women as an object you can use, some people assume that by being nice to a women you should expect sexual favours in return, women are taught to be careful at night as they are seen as an easy target, a women?s piof clothingno matter how shortshould not justice a man?s behaviour, women are blame when they are raped while drunk, women who are raped see themselves as the ones to blame, men still use catcalling like it?s appropriate and should be seen as a compliment, I remember as a younger girl and to tday I couldn?t stay out as late as my boy friends because I was a girl, women are expected to take the mans name after marriage, because although men face all of the issues women face it?s never on the same scale as women. The word feminism has negative connotations in many people?s minds however it?s because clearly not everyone understands and knows the meaning as only 36% of adults in Britain define themselves as Feminists but 76% support gender equality according to Iona Hartshorn One Poll writer, feminism should be supported by everyone and it?s completely outrageous some don?t see that men and women should be equal.In Conclusion, our society still needs feminism. It?s not as clear as in previous years however it?s still evident. Women only make up about 20% of governments representation, there?s still a nearly 20% page gap between the sexes, women are still getting taught to be careful at night and gender stereotypes are still used as if its appropriate. In other words, everyone should believe in feminism, there is no reason not to believe in gender inequality unless you?re ignorant to our history and modern society issues.https://ww w.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-feminismhttp://www.parliament.uk/education/about-your-parliament/introduction/women-in-politics/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcherhttp://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/2013/02/stats-and-facts-on-women-in-power/http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/28/not-one-country-has-fully-closed-gender-ghttp://www.amanet.org/training/articles/Glass-Ceiling-Is-Cracked-but-Not-Yet-Broken.aspxap-yet-report-showshttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/65http://www.rapecrisis.org.uk/Statistics2.phphttp://www.onepoll.com/36-of-british-adults-define-themselves-as-feminists-yet-76-support-gender-equality-why-are-people-reluctant-to-identify-as-a-feminist/
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