Womens Rights

WALT: write a persuasive writing piece.

Did you know that for centuries women were the property of men?

It was the dad's job to look after their daughter until the daughter gets married and then she is the property of her husband. How unfair is that. I’m not telling you that women should take over. But I want there to be equal rights for both men and women.

If you didn’t know women in America only got the right to vote in the 1900s. Which if you think about it it was not that long ago. they could have given women the vote from the start of all the presidential elections. Luckily for the women in NZ the people thought women should have the vote in 1883. But that is still not long ago. saying this humans have been on earth for thousands of years. The women that fought for the vote were called Suffragettes. These women did walks around the world to let people know how serious they were. Suffragettes were around a long time ago and they are not called suffragettes now. But they were.

There are people that fight so hard to win the freedom for women. One of these people is Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She fought to give women the freedom that would allow women to do more. She was the second woman on the Supreme Court of the USA. Ruth was one of the nine girls in the class of 500 men at her law school. The dean of the Harvard Law School asked all the women including Ruth a question. (how do you justify taking a spot from a qualified man?). When I found out someone said that I was disgusted. But Ruth kept pushing until she got onto the Supreme Court.

There was another woman who was before RBG called Sojourner Truth. She was a slave because of her skin color. Sojourner Truth had two things to fight for. Freedom for women and also freedom for black people. She wanted to be free and marry a man who was a slave from the next farm over but she had to marry a man from the same farm she worked on. Sojourner had 5 children. But one of them was going to be sold. Sojourner went to court and won her case. Everyone was surprised that a black woman went to court and won against a white man. She fought for her life to save women and black people. She is my true hero.

Women still want more opportunities as men. Over time women have been given more experiences, but it isn’t fixed yet. There are still countries that don’t believe women are better than men and as smart as men which is preposterous. Therefore I stand by my point, join me in this never ending fight to overcome the unfairness towards women.