Title: What is feminism? - Quora
Headings: What is feminism?
What is feminism?
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David Ramsey

Content: Does that not mean the same thing as an equality movement? Well here’s the thing, the only way for Women’s Rights and Equality to be synonymous is if women were less than men when it came to rights. In the West, that’s simply not the case. In fact, not only do women have more legal rights than men due to their baby making capacity, the rights we share often do not come with the same responsibilities as men historically. The obvious and over cited example is of course the vote. The often forgotten aspect to the fight for the right to vote was that women opposed it. It wasn’t just evil men in office chairs stroking white cats asking how they could impose patriarchy today. No, it was women who were wary of it because of the responsibilities it entailed. IN 1895 the women of Massachusetts were asked by the state whether they wished the suffrage. Of the 575,000 voting women in the state, only 22,204 cared for it enough to deposit in a ballot box an affirmative answer to this question.