Women Lifting Up The Skies

          

quote from Sylvia Plath, 20th century poet

          Women are constantly oppressed in society. They are looked down as second-class creatures who can do nothing more but move around the house and be a good and loving wife. Indeed, women have these sides parallel to the assumptions and stereotypes that society has established. But as what we have observed in today's time and generation, women are continuing to fight against the stigma of such despondencies and invectiveness.

          Today, the battle between women versus society still goes on like any decade or eon-long war known in history. They are gathering forces around the world to defeat gender norms and roles, sexual oppression, and are fighting for their rights in society in political, social, economic and personal aspects. Because for history knows how long, women have been treated like nothing but toys. This movement is what we all know today as the feminist movement, or the feminist theory when we speak in terms of Social Science. As defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it is "the belief in and the advocacy of the equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests."

          Back in the old days where women were conservative, silenced, and controlled by the patriarchy, they were easy targets of any abuse such as physical and sexual. They were pawns whose advantages were constantly taken from. Such situations has lead to women and prominent and well-known feminists like Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen and Sylvia Plath to move against it and use their voices, which in their time, were heard or read through literature. They had the absolute power to weave words in hopes that they could move society's members and open their eyes to such issues.

          Women also have the power through their actions. This could be seen during the three waves of feminism where women have fought for their rights to vote, their rights to legal and social equality, and the continued fight against other issues like the radical reordering of society and the elimination of male supremacy.

          To conclude, feminism has made a profound impact to women and to the slow but steady change in society. When the burning passion to fight for one's rights never dies, women - everyone can live in equality and in peace.

          Feminism isn't about making women stronger, women are already strong. It's about changing the way that the world perceives their strength.