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Article on Feminism: First World and Third World

   

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Table of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................2Organizations for feminism.........................................................................................................2Third world countries......................................................................................................................3First world countries........................................................................................................................4Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6References........................................................................................................................................61

IntroductionFeminism is one of the most talked of topics in the world of today. This refers to the promotionof the rights of women and bringing an equality among the genders. This includes many politicalmovements that are being encouraged to help in the increase of the awareness and the applicationof feminism in the society through education and policies for the advancement of women.Education more than anything else is given stress upon for advocating feminism. (Butler, 2011)The term “feminism” got popularity in the 1970s, although the use of the word was being donefor a long time. The history of feminism has three phases where the first one can be spotted inthe 19th century, the second in the 1960s leading onward and the last phase that has beencontinuing till date since the 1990s (Grayzel, 2014). There were movements of feminism whichtook place leading to the theory of feminism to be developed. Over time the perspective towardsand of feminism has seen change and there also have been diversions from the main stream offeminist thought like the present day pseudo-feminism thought. Organizations for feminismIt must be pointed out that more than 60% of the world’s population that is subject to the povertyconditions are women. An organization, Amnesty International, which believes in defending therights of an individual, has given the data that a minimum of 1/3rd of the women all over theworld are abused in some way in their lifetime. The first global think tank that was createdpertaining to this issue is The Sisterhood (Kennedy, 2004). This is an institute that functionsacross the globe. There were also many other movements and spin offs that were inspired by thisone movement. A very high amount of recognition is brought by the United Nations to the issue of sexism andthe inequality that exists in the society on the basis of gender and sex roles. There are manydifferent conferences that have been held by the United Nations like the International Decade forWomen in Beijing, Nairobi, and so on. To the surprise of those who attended these conferences,the conference that was held in Copenhagen, most of those who were official delegates of theUnited Nations were not women. All these conferences had major roles to play in the setting upthe international scenario of feminism, like the conference in Beijing set the scenario through the2

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