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The speech furthered the ideas of the American Women's Movement, and is considered by some to be one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century. [1] Steinem refers to the idea of sex and race as being easy ways to organize people into inferior and superior beings due to the prominent characteristics and traits that are easy to point out.
The speech is considered to be influential in the women's rights movement. Specifically, it became a key moment in the empowerment of women, and years later women around the world would recite Clinton's key phrases. [16] The speech was listed as number 35 in American Rhetoric's Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century (listed by rank). [17]
The second world conference on women was held in Copenhagen in 1980. [1] The conference agreed that the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was an important milestone. The Copenhagen conference also acknowledged the gap between rights being secured for women and women's ability to exercise those rights.
For many women, one scene in "Barbie" was particularly cathartic: America Ferrera's monologue about feminism. Here's why.
Happy International Women's Day from the newsletter that celebrates women year-round. - Hot topic. In an election year State of the Union address last night, President Joe Biden highlighted a key ...
Throughout my career as a lawyer, I have sought to advance women’s rights. It seems pretty obvious that this is a worthy area of focus. Whether you believe in human rights, or just prosperity ...
The women's language had a distinct vocabulary, found in the records of religious rituals to be performed by women, also in the speech of goddesses in mythological texts. There has been some dispute about the role of Emesal, with suggestions by some scholars that Emegir was a dialect used by the public and more informally while Emesal was a ...
Oprah, Sheryl Sandberg, Diane Von Furstenberg, Michelle Obama and traced their success and the success of women back to the work of Gloria Steinem.