What arguments might you use to counter the arguments of men and women who opposed equal rights for women?
Women - A woman's place is in the home. She should at home looking after the kids. She needs be at home when her man comes home from work. I like being looked after by a man. Men - A woman's place is in the home. She should at home looking after the kids. She should have my dinner ready when I get home. She can't do all the thing I can. It's scary how often the same reason is given by both genders.
What arguments do opponents of equal pay make to support their case?
Pay equity does not interfere with the market. To the contrary, USA has found that in some cases, the state is the largest employer, and therefore it sets the market. The issue of pay equity is one of internal equity, not one of wage control. Just as equal pay for equal work means that women and men holding the same job in the same organization must be paid the same, pay equity means that similar jobs held by men and women in the same organization should be paid the same. After implementing pay equity, most employers continue to survey the market. This is appropriate for jobs held by men since the market does not discriminate against these jobs. Pay for female-dominated jobs can then be determined based on internal equity.More women are choosing occupations held predominantly by men, and we must continue to make these jobs more accessible to women. But society still needs secretaries, nurses, librarians and the many other occupations predominantly filled by women. Women (and men) should have the right to choose any occupation and know that they will be paid fairly for the work they do. In order to entirely eliminate segregation across occupations, one study estimated that 60 percent of all women and men would have to move to occupations dominated by the opposite sex. Such a change would obviously be very disruptive to the economy.
Why do women use the "it's my body" argument to defend abortion?
I completely agree with you. All these women screaming about their "reproductive rights" seem to conveniently forget their responsibilities. All rights come with a responsibility...you can't drive a car without a seat belt, you have freedom of speech but you still can't yell "fire" in a theater...and you certainly have to protect yourself if you are having sex. It is also pretty irksome that somehow this other human life has it's right to life, one of the most essential rights in our constitution denied it.
What are the arguments Susan B. Anthony uses to promote women's suffrage?
1. "In her writings, Susan B. Anthony occasionally mentioned abortion. Susan B. Anthony opposed abortion which at the time was an unsafe medical procedure for women, endangering their health and life. She blamed men, laws and the "double standard" for driving women to abortion because they had no other options. ("When a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is a sign that, by education or circumstances, she has been greatly wronged." 1869) She believed, as did many of the feminists of her era, that only the achievement of women's equality and freedom would end the need for abortion. Anthony used her anti-abortion writings as yet another argument for women's rights." 2. "Some of Susan B. Anthony's writings were also quite racist by today's standards, particularly those from the period when she was angry that the Fifteenth Amendment wrote the word "male" into the constitution for the first time in permitting suffrage for freedmen. She sometimes argued that educated white women would be better voters than "ignorant" black men or immigrant men." She also argued that the United States was not formed just by white men or men, but women also. "It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government - the ballot."
What arguments were used against Women's suffrage movement?
All of the above, as well as: 1) Women are ruled by emotion, not by logic, and cannot make that kind of decision; 2) Given the vote, women will neglect their duties as homemakers and their children will suffer; 3) Women don't NEED the vote, since they already serve as their husbands' moral compass. I remember looking through a book, "Suffragettes to She Devils," which looks at images throughout the ages on the subject of women's rights. Here is one of the images: http://www.herstoria.com/images_global/S... For more: http://www.google.com/images?q=anti-suff... EDIT: Eo, he never said that all men had the vote. And had women's suffrage been granted, not all women would have had the vote-- just as when black people gained the vote, it was actually only black men. Check the amendments-- nowhere does it say, "All women can vote." It says that you can't deny someone the vote solely on the basis of sex. That doesn't mean you can't deny them the right to vote in other ways. EDIT: I suppose you'd know, being an American female feminist and all.
What arguments were used by those Americans who did not want to expand women's roles in the economy and societ
Interesting question. I have studied the lives of Elizabeth Stanton and S.B.Anthony in-depth.. from their side. I have never really taken a close look at their opposition. From memory, the main argument was the belief that the illiterate should not be allowed to vote. On a social level, only land owners and the educated were considered worthy enough to vote. This is how the later, Jim Crow Era was able to manifest itself even after the laws were changed. The core concept was that if you empower the uneducated with the power of a vote, that they will make 'stupid' choices. Women fall in this category because they were not allowed to attend college at the time, etc...
What arguments did Rabbi Ovadia Yosef use to marry the women who lost their husbands in battle?
I assume you are referring to the approximately one thousand cases of married men killed in the Yom Kippur War. The work of permitting their widows to remarry extended over a two year period, from 1974 ro 1976, although the most intense work was done during the first half year.Rabbi Ovadia Yosef - of blessed memory - used every legitimate argument he could muster in order to identify each dead soldier. Some of them are discussed in his Responsa Yabia Omer volume 6, Even Haezer no. 3. The challenge was immense, for many bodies were mutilated beyond recognition. Sources of identification that Rabbi Yosef found acceptable included testimony of fellow sodiers, ID tags, personal documents found in the pockets of uniforms, post mortem photographs, dental records, finger prints… In one case apparently it was sufficient to match the date engraved on the wedding band on a soldier’s finger to the wedding date of his widow. In another case, Rabbi Yosef accepted the testimony of a pilot of a fighter plane who reported the missile attack on his plane and his partner’s plane, with his partner’s plane being hit and exploding, and a helicopter search of the area finding no remnants, Of course, Rabbi Yosef did not make his decsions alone - he headed a Jewish court (“bet din”), together with the IDF Chief Rabbi Mordechai Piron and his assistant Rabbi Gad Navon.If I remember correctly, I heard about two or three years ago from Rabbi Yosef zt”l’s son, the current Sephardi Chief Rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef - may he live a good, long life - about one case in which his father could not find sufficient grounds for permitting the dead soldier’s wife, although the bet din examined every possible angle. When the list of Israeli captives held in Egypt (or was it Syria?) was released, the man’s name was not on the list, causing Rabbi Yosef and the other’s great consternation. Yet Rabbi Yosef sent one of the rabbis to check the men coming off the plane when the captives were returned in a prisoner exchange after the war. All the men had come off the plane, and the man was still not there. Yet Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s instruction was to look for that man among the living. Sure enough, after all the captives whose names had been released had come off the plane, one more captive was left on the plane, whose name had not been released. It was the husband whose wife Rabbi Yosef had not declared a widow, because of lack of proof of the man’s death.
What were some arguments against women's suffrage?
Many female anti-suffragists thought that it would coarsen women to be involved in politics. They thought women had a higher purpose, being involved in social reform through doing good works, holding the family together, educating the young etc. They saw women as too noble to be involved in the rough hurly-burly of political life. They thought women should exercise political power in a way, but by influencing the men in their lives for good rather than by having a direct vote. Male anti-suffragists were more likely to argue that women were too emotional and irrational to make wise political decisions. In the USA, the liquor industry was particularly terrified of women's suffrage because of the huge number of women who were involved in the Temperence movement. They thought the women's vote would lead to prohibition for sure (in actual fact prohibition was passed before women got the vote across the USA). In the UK, where women could already vote in municiple elections, men argued that this was enough, since municiple elections dealt with things like education and health, which were women's concerns, whereas the national government was more concerned with administration of the empire, national defence etc, matters that had nothing to do with women. They argued that since women could not be called upon to defend the realm, they had no business having the vote. Another argument was that comparatively few women were householders, and at that time only men who were householders had the vote, so it was argued that if they gave the vote to women, they'd also have to give it to men who were not householders. Another reason that was important to Liberal and Labour politicians in the UK was that women were thought to be naturally conservative, and both the Labour and Liberal parties were afraid of weakening their own position if they gave women the vote. This argument held sway in France for much longer, women did not get the vote there until 1947, because the French socialists were also fearful of what they regarded as the natural conservative tendencies of women.