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Aituar Nugmetullin Assignment 01

While I was reading this chapter, one thought was concerning me. Davis said that women were mostly mother’s and they had to cook food, clean house and raise children. The thought I’ve been having is that times have changed but some people haven’t. I’ll try to explain it as clear as possible. For instance, if we compare modern times to the time when women of any race wanted their rights to count. Nowadays women are independent and strong but in some places of the world, women live with the same old patriarchal way of live. The problem of gender occurs not only in US but in other countries also.

Girl is taught to be a keeper of a house and a good mother since childhood and it almost never changes. I’ll give a personal example and I’ll describe my mother. She was told that women have to do everything in home. In my culture men has a big role but my mother didn’t want to be a “just another woman” she wanted to become someone. She made everything to ensure that she would accomplished her own goals.  She went against all the rules and guidelines she was once told. So she got an excellent education in three different universities and she got a well paid job. In addition, she is a great mother because she always cared for her family. I’m proud of her because she accomplished what she wanted and she escaped the way of life she was told to follow. She succeeded in professional way and in her personal. Of course there are other issues such as a glass ceiling but it’s a topic for another day.

In my opinion women who wanted to be equal to men in the nineteen’s century accomplished a lot because with out them we probably wouldn’t have our way of life. Of course there are still inequalities and men and women of any race have still a long way to go to a full understanding of this question. However, for now, thanks to strong and independent people like Elizabeth Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth and many other men and women, who came along despite their gender and race differences. Although in the beginning black women’s right were not mention on conventions of that time and it definitely draw attention to it. Luckily they united for a greater goal and made powerful speeches that we study now. “And ain’t I a woman” is probably one of the highlights of the movement. Sojourner speech not only was about black women’s right but also about all women and how they can achieve the same amount of work done as men do. Black liberation movement and Women’s liberation movement realized that it’s in their best interest to unite and make changes. Thanks to them we now have some idea how an equal world can look like in a future and that we still have a long way to go.