Lesson 2

• In Greece, Aristotle, Plato, and other Greek Philosophers viewed women as the inferior sex and properties of men
• Salient points demanded by feminism


  • Obey their father
  • Equality in politics and society
  • Reproductive rights
  • End domestic violence
  • End sexual harassment
• Patriarchy


  From the Greek word Patriarkhes meaning "the rule of the father", where men rule over women and their children
• Egalitarian


  Men and women have equitable power and roles
• Women Suffrage was legalized on September 17, 1937
• Simeone De Beauvoir urged females to speak about the truth through hunger strikes, rallies, and protests
• Patriarchy


  Social system where men primarily hold power in the political and private spheres
• In Egypt, Herodotus observed that Egyptian women enjoyed higher social status than Greek women as they could inherit property and engage in trade and politics
• Simeone De Beauvoir: 'She wrote "The Second Sex" in 1949'
• In a patriarchal society, women are expected to be obedient and submissive at all times
• Demands for women's rights

  • Right to go to school
  • Right to legally own property
  • Right to give opinion in politics and science
  • Right to education
  • Right to live free from violence and discrimination
  • Right to enjoy the highest attainable standard
  • Right to earn equal wage
• According to the United Nations, women work more than men
• Women Suffragettes

  • Lucretia Mott
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Alice Paul
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Lucy Stone
  • Frederick Douglass
• Friedrich Engels argues that patriarchy arose with the shift to private property from communal living
• Later color

  • Gold and yellow with a symbol of sunflower
• For hundreds of years, women's voices were silenced, so society must make an effort to restore their rights
• Other rights include the right to divorce their husbands, the right to make decisions on her pregnancy, equitable wages, and equal employment opportunity
• Domestic violence, such as marital rape and physical abuse, are often dismissed by society as part of a "marriage"
• First color


  • Green
• Summary: You can help in making the world a better place for women by learning to respect and recognizing that women deserve the same rights as men - that women are not to be treated as the weaker sex or the submissive sex, but rather as an equal
• Salient points demanded by feminism

  • Women should obey their father
  • When married, she is to obey her husband
  • When widowed, she is to obey her son
  • Equality in politics and society
• In its broadest sense, domestic violence also involves violence against children, teenagers, parents, or the elderly
• Reproductive Rights of Women

  1. The right to decide about marriage and number of children

  2. The right to have well-being throughout life for all matters relating to reproductive health

  3. The right to a responsible, healthy, safe, and satisfying sex life

  4. The right to have safe, effective, affordable, and acceptable family planning methods of choice

  5. The right to safe pregnancy and birth

  6. The right to be free from sexual violence and assault

  7. The right to privacy in relation to reproductive health

  8. The right to have a responsible and empowered young husband
• Domestic Murder

  • Stoning
  • Bride burning
  • Honor killing
  • Dowry deaths (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan)
• Multiple forms of Domestic Violence

  • Verbal abuse
  • Sexual abuse
  • Economic abuse
  • Financial abuse
  • Emotional abuse
  • Physical abuse (Choking, beating, acid throwing, female genital mutilation - 5 years old in Africa)
  • Religious abuse
• No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone