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Why do you think women's rights and the women's movement don't resonate with younger women? Yes, there are pockets here and there but nothing like during the suffragette movement or the women's movement of the 70's. Somewhere along the line the message of empowerment was lost and we managed to move BACKWARDS. So, these are some of my questions:
1) Why isn't there a significant women's movement for the 21st century?
2) What do we need to do to resurrect the women's movement but adapt it to the 21st century?
3) What can we who fought the fight in the 70's and 80's do to help?
I really am anxious to hear your perspective.
Thanks,
LTH.
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Big battles like a rape epidemic, victim blaming, unequal pay, abortion restrictions,
NuclearDem
Jan 2014
#24
The epidemic of domestic violence, which results in an average of three women murdered every day
redqueen
Jan 2014
#27
In a population of 350,000,000, I don't think I'd term that an "epidemic".
Donald Ian Rankin
Jan 2014
#94
I saw the same thing happen on a smaller scale in San Fransico Women in Advertising
NV Whino
Jan 2014
#4
Since it's a story about how young women are taking political action as opposed
msanthrope
Jan 2014
#13
if by getting out more the poster meant getting off DU3 more then No, it wasn't snark. n/t
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2014
#31
No..it wasn't snark. It's reality. You gotta get out to where the activism is...nt.
msanthrope
Jan 2014
#44
Ever since Sigourney strapped on a loader, women have been bad-asses in the movies.
randome
Jan 2014
#16
This is interesting. I think that the lack of reproductive choice, though the legislation is being
Squinch
Jan 2014
#76
Speaking for my daughter I would say that young women want to be treated with
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2014
#58
My birth control is free, I can shake my tits on TV or enlist in the infantry. That's my bucket list
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2014
#50
Perhaps they are not jumping into the trenches because they do not believe...
Demo_Chris
Jan 2014
#53
good post, i think there is def a generational thing in regards to the battles
loli phabay
Jan 2014
#57
I think that young women are fighting the fight simply by living their lives the way they want.
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2014
#60
agree with some of that, not with others. It is harder for everybody these days. Working
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2014
#72
They don't understand how it was before, and more importantly, they don't believe
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2014
#68
Yes. That is what Jennifer Siebel Newsom exposed in her documentary, Miss Representation.
redqueen
Jan 2014
#71
I was so excited when I saw it. I thought for sure it would be a watershed moment for women.
redqueen
Jan 2014
#78
I'm not a younger woman, but I think the answer is obvious: diminishing returns.
Donald Ian Rankin
Jan 2014
#95