What Women Want Shakira, the famous singer, once said “I have always believed that women have rights, and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights.” Throughout history, few women have actually stood up for their rights. Many women wanted to, but they were not sure how to do so. Women want their rights and education. They want to be involved in the world. Above all, women want to be considered an equal to men. Women are fighting for education every day. Acquiring an education is a woman’s basic right (Lewis 9). However, some men disagree. The Taliban are some of those men. The Taliban consists of men who do not believe in girls’ educational rights (Lewis 6). The Taliban have taken over several territories …show more content…
Yousafzai lived in Swat Valley at the time. The Taliban began taking control of Swat Valley in 2007. All the girls’ schools of Swat Valley were ordered to close, but Yousafzai’s father kept his school open (Lewis 6-7). Yousafzai created a blog to inform people about what was happening to her. She used a pseudonym for her blog. When her blog identity was revealed, she began receiving threatening notes under her front door. Yousafzai was shot on October 9, 2012. She was sitting on a school bus and was shot by men who were a part of the Taliban. The Taliban claimed that Yousafzai being shot was a warning to other girls to stop fighting for their education (Lewis 5-9). However, Yousafzai and other girls continued to fight for their …show more content…
They want to be given political and social rights. The battle for women’s rights to vote began in 1848. It was the longest reform movement in American history (Nash 7). Mary Wollstonecraft argued for women’s rationality and equality with men. She thought that women deserved the right to vote just as much as men (Giele 384). In 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association was created (“The Women’s Rights Movement”). In 1848, the leaders of the Women’s Suffrage Movement adopted the Declaration of Sentiments (Nash 12). The Declaration of Sentiments demanded that women have the same privileges as men. More than seventy years later, women won the right to vote. Women’s Right to Vote is known as the Nineteenth Amendment (Nash 113). After gaining the right to vote, women began to fight for political office. In 1919, Lady Astor was the first woman to serve in the British Parliament (“The Women’s Rights