1. Women’s Rights in the 20th and 21st Century
Women’s Rights are
Human Rights

2. Feminist Quotes
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." ~Clare Boothe Luce
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute. ~Rebecca West

3. Feminist Quotes
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. ~Author Unknown
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl." ~Shirley Chisholm

4. Discuss in Small Groups
What has changed/progressed for women in the 21st Century?
What remains the same/what are the problems that continue to exist today?

5. Feminisms

6. Types of Feminisms

7. 1st Wave Feminism

8. 2nd Wave Feminism

9. 3rd Wave Feminism

10. 4th? Wave Feminism

11. Post-Feminism

12. Patriarchy

13. Some pertinent definitions
Sexism = Sexism or gender discrimination is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's gender.
Sexist attitudes stem from socially constructed ideas/stereotypes of traditional “normal” gender roles, and inherently includes the belief that a person/group of one gender is intrinsically superior to a person/group of the other.

14. Some pertinent definitions
Misogyny = is the hatred or dislike of women or girls.
Misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including sexual discrimination, denigration of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification of women.

15. Some pertinent definitions
Toxic/Hegemonic Masculinity =  is one of the ways in which patriarchy is harmful to men.
It refers to the socially-constructed attitudes that describe the masculine gender role as violent, unemotional, sexually aggressive, and so forth.

16. Some pertinent definitions
Rape Culture =  Rape culture is a term that was coined by feminists in the United States in the 1970’s.
It was designed to show the ways in which society blamed victims of sexual assault and normalized male sexual violence.

17. Some pertinent definitions
Rape Culture =  It is when society normalizes sexualized violence, it accepts and creates rape culture.
It is a society where violence is seen as sexy and sexuality as violent.

18. Some pertinent definitions
Rape Culture =  In a rape culture both men and women assume that sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable.
Rape culture includes jokes, TV, music, advertising, legal jargon, laws, words and imagery, that make violence against women and sexual coercion seem so normal.

21. The Suffragette Movement, 1900s

22. Women’s Rights in the 1960s

23. Economic Issues
Lack of Equity (Equal pay for Equal Work)
Wage Discrimination
Pink Collar Jobs (Pink Ghetto)
Glass Ceiling/Class Ceiling
Sexual Harassment

24. Economic Issues
The Two Paycheque Syndrome
The Second Shift
Single Mothers and Poverty

25. The Women’s Movement in the USA
President's Commission on the Status of Women, by President John F. Kennedy
Betty Freidan =
The Feminine Mystique
National Organization for Women (NOW)

26. The Women’s Movement in the USA
“Women’s Lib” (aka Women’s Liberation)
Gloria Steinem = National Women’s Politician Caucus

27. Women in the 1980s s

28. Women in the 1980s s

29. Women in the 1980s s

30. Women in the 1980s s

31. Four Women Who Were National Leaders
Golda Meir
Indira Gandhi

32. Four Women Who Were National Leaders
Margaret Thatcher
Benazir Bhutto

33. Women’s Rights in the 21st Century
Women in the 21st Century are thought to have:
Freedom to vote
Freedom of choice
Freedom of religion
Freedom from fear
Freedom from torture
Freedom from enslavement
Freedom from violence and abuse

34. Women’s Rights in the 21st Century
Unfortunately, many women are still stripped of their basic rights.
Yes, in the 21st Century!

35. Women’s Rights in the 21st Century
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

36. Women’s Rights are Human Rights ~ Hilary Rodham Clinton

37. But we have many problems in the modern world

38. Women’s rights

39. Problems in the Modern World
Political Participation
Women and Education
Women and Labour
Women and Population
Women and Health
Women and Violence + Sexuality

40. Violence Against Women + Girls Includes:
physical, sexual, psychological and economic violence
harassment or intimidation
sexual abuse or rape, including marital rape
battery
domestic violence
forced prostitution
Trafficking in women and girls
burning or acid throwing
female genital mutilation
female feticide and infanticide
violence in armed conflict (as a weapon of war)
systemic rape
sexual slavery
forced pregnancy
forced marriage

41. WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN CANADA

42. Its
So why do we still need to talk about ending violence against women and girls in Canada?

43. 2018: The Grim Facts Persist
Globally, one in three women has experienced physical or sexual abuse by a man.
Among women aged years, gender-based violence accounts for the most deaths.
The cost of violence in BC is about 1 billion dollars.

44. One of the Darkest Days in Canadian History
The Montreal Massacre
One of the Darkest Days in Canadian History

48. The story about the Montreal Massacre
Polytechnique, 2009
The story about the Montreal Massacre
e.com/watch?v=kS OqkU2KDR0

49. The Highway of Tears

50. Finding Dawn is a 2006 documentary film by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh.
She looked into the fate of an estimated 500+ Canadian Aboriginal women who have been murdered or have gone missing over the past 30 years.

51. Pickton and the Women of the DTES

52. MMIWG

53. MMIWG

54. MMIWG

55. Recent Events Serena Vermeersch
September 16, 2014

56. Recent Events Julie Pascall
December 31, 2013

57. Recent Events Amanda Todd
October 10, 2012

58. Recent Events Corporal Catherine Galliford
November 9, 2011

59. Taylor Van Diest
October 31, 2011

60. Maple Batalia
September 28 , 2011

61. Rumana Monzur
June 21, 2011

62. Kim Proctor
March 19, 2010

63. Laura Szendrei
September 25, 2010

64. Loren Leslie
November 27, 2010

65. Cody Alan Legebokoff charged with 3 more murders
October 18, 2011
Jill Stuchenko
Cynthia Maas
Natasha Montgomery

66. Ariana May Simpson
February 12, 2009

67. Manjit Panghali
Oct. 23, 2006

68. Reena Virk
November 14, 1997

69. IT IS EVERYONE’S PROBLEM!
The Blatant Truth
Violence against women and girls in Canada and around the world is not only a women’s or girl’s problem = it is a boy’s and men’s problem too.
IT IS EVERYONE’S PROBLEM!

71. WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN Afghanistan

72. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Basically, inequality, violence and discrimination against women break every single article in the Declaration of Human Rights!

73. THE CURRENT STATUS OF WOMEN

74. Women have not achieved equality with men in any country!

75. Discuss in Small Groups
What can be done today to improve the lives of women and girls throughout the world?

76. Where to go from here? Empowerment!

77. March 8

78. History is herstory too. ~Author Unknown
Feminist Quotes
I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. ~Madonna
History is herstory too. ~Author Unknown
I think, therefore I'm single. ~Lizz Winstead

79. You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. ~Jane Galvin Lewis
Feminist Quotes
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse. ~Golda Meir
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~Gloria Steinem
You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. ~Jane Galvin Lewis

80. Women’s Rights are Human Rights!

81. Documentary film
It’s A Girl (2012)
1hour and 4 minutes
This documentary film explores the question of why are 200 million girls missing? In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, neglected or abandoned simply because they are girls.