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In reply to the discussion: UN Commission on the Status of Women: The Vatican, Iran, Russia and Egypt oppose findings. [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)The women's rights movement came directly out of the 60s political movement and was fostered by the female's treatment of males within it, in the general sense of male entitlement that still exists.
That's what women claim.
the international women's rights movement seeks to make women safe where they live, able to attain educations, able to earn a living so that they are not bondage slaves to their families or other families.
It's true that blue collar families tend to be more egalitarian in some ways because women are needed to supply an income in order to survive.
It's also true that when women get married or couple with a man, the societal pressures are huge to assume traditional gender roles and salary differentials contribute to this.
It's also true that the feminism in that era was centered around those who had the leisure and educational opportunities to engage in study and consciousness raising... but all of that, ultimately, has nothing to say about the current value of the international women's human rights groups who are composed of women from nations around the world who speak for women in various cultures and not just the west.