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What is true feminism? RBG's crusade for the cause

My tribute to her memory and legacy.

By Lena BaileyPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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Since Ruth's death we talked about how she did a lot for women. I want to talk about the feminism movement and what Ruth did for the movement. I will talk about both new school and old school feminism.

Old school feminism was a movement wanting the equality for women. They wanted equality in every aspect of life including political, economic, personal, and social. The early fight was geared to the right to vote, to hold office, work, earn equal pay, own property, receive education, enter contracts, have equal rights within marriage, and maternity leave. The early fight was also trying to change the gender stereotypes. Old school feminism fought for women to be equal to men. The old schools also wanted legal access to abortions. Old schoolers wanted women to be incorporated into the social structure of society. They also wanted women and girls to be protected from rape, assault, sexual harassment and abuse.

The new school feminists are still fighting for rights for women. We have a lot of abortion bans that are coming into law or being blocked. We are still fight for pay equality. We are also trying to protect women and children from rape, assault, harassment and abuse. Some of the new school feminist are louder than old school feminists. They are also more extreme sometimes than old schoolers.

Both old school and new school feminist have been labeled men haters. Most feminists don't hate men. There are feminists out there that do hate men, but it's not all feminists. We just want women to be equal and protected. Women also want the right to choose what happens in her life and to her body.

There are some people who believe in or do something then you're a bad feminist. For example some people believe those support strippers are bad feminist. The only thing that will make someone a bad feminist is if they are against women's rights or equality.

I call Ruth Bader Ginsburg's one of the mothers of feminists. When she started her career she had a hard time finding a job because of her gender. She had spent time in Sweden where her thoughts on gender equality was influenced. She co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1972. They participated in over 300 gender discrimination cases by 1974. She argued six gender discrimination cases before the Supreme Court between 1973 and 1976, winning five. She made advances for women legally. On April 14, 1980 she was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. On June 18, 1980 she was confirmed by the senate. On August 9, 1993 her service ended so that she could be on the supreme court.

We all know her work on the supreme court. She worked on cases that dealt with gender discrimination, abortion rights, search and seizures, international law, Native Americans and a few other topics. She had always championed for women at all of her jobs. She wanted women like me to have the lives she believed we deserve.

The way we honor her and her memory is to fight for, champion for, be kind to and protect women. We also fight and champion for equality. Let's not let her work be reversed or die with her. We are women we should be able to be sexy, explore who we are, be protected, make our own choices and be bosses if that's who we are.

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Lena Bailey

Georgia born writer. Specializing in dating and true crime

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