Up until 1920, women couldn't vote. Until 1974, married women couldn't get their own credit cards or, in some cases, their own loans. Basically, the husband's professional, social, and economic identity covered the individual identity of the wife.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the historical oppression of women and the gradual changes in their social and economic rights.
Rebecca Traister's quote emphasizes the significant transformations in women's rights over the decades, illustrating how women were historically denied basic rights such as voting and financial autonomy. It showcases the societal structures that often relegated women's identities to that of their husbands, underlining the importance of recognizing and addressing these inequities to foster true gender equality.
In practice
This quote can be used in a women's rights rally to emphasize the importance of continuing the fight for equality.
There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.
There are all kinds of ways in which women, together, change the world. And I don't mean that in a cheesy way. I'm not somebody who believes all women should support each other. I believe very strongly in women critiquing each other, just not critiquing each other more intensely because they're women.
Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.
More women than ever are having babies at the peak of their careers. When will we stop punishing them for it?
Being able to control your reproduction is essential to women's ability to flourish in the United States.
When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.
If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.
Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.
Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a new conscience, that is like a magic box full of brains.
It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.
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