SCS 100 Journal: Analyzing the Gender Equality Social Movement Impact

This journal entry, prepared by a student, reflects on the gender equality movement as part of an SCS 100 assignment. The student chose this movement due to its focus on equal access to resources, opportunities, and decision-making, as well as the freedom from gender stereotypes. The student learned about the movement through news articles and social media. The movement in the United States aims to address inequality and discrimination based on sex, including disparities in political participation, employment, and household labor. The movement's momentum stems from historical struggles for gender equality and support from individuals in positions of power, directly impacting the student's employment opportunities. The journal answers key questions about the movement's goals, origins, and personal impact.

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Name of the student
Name of the university
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1. The chosen social movement for this particular study is the gender equality movement
(Milligan, 2019). The equivalent ease towards the access of the resources and the
opportunities in regards of the gender that furthermore incudes the decision making and
the economic participation together with the state of valuing different behaviors,
aspirations and the needs are some of the factors that interested me regarding the
movement. Furthermore freedom of the development of personal abilities and making
choices with any stereotypes, rigid roles of gender have inspired me towards this social
movement of gender equality.
2. I have learned about this particular social movement by the means of news article and the
social media. The governmental publications and timeline of the events as described in
the social media was the source from where I got the opportunity to learn about this
particular social movement.
3. The social movement of gender equality in United States aims to answer the inequality
and the discrimination on the basis of sex in many of the forms that includes the disparity
in the participation of women in politics, segregate of women gender in case of
employment status and occupational choice and the unequal burden of labor of household
(Goetz, 2018). The gap in the education and the facilities and the access to the health care
activities are some of the factors that constitute as the ingredient to the big questions or
the inquiry that this social movement is trying to answer. The alleviation of the inequality
of gender is one of the big question that the social movements aims to address. Besides
these, some of the other ingredients constituting the big question includes the violence
faced by the transgender, the inequality by prejudice and the violation outside the gender
binary that is prevalent in United States.

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4. The movement for the gender equality in United States gained momentum due to the age
long fights for the gender equality that reached the success of women earning the right to
vote, the liberation movement of women. The gender equality movement gained its
momentum furthermore due to the support from men and the people in positions of
power. The opportunity of women to stand in powerful political position has directly and
indirectly affected the day to day life of the individuals. In the context of my personal
exercise, the gender equality movement has directly impacted in fair and equal promotion
opportunities and fair pay in my employment place.

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Reference
Goetz, A. M. (2018). National women’s machinery: State-based institutions to advocate for
gender equality. In Mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state?. Manchester
University Press.
Milligan, S. (2019). Stepping Through History A timeline of women's rights from 1769 to the
2017 Women's March on Washington. Retrieved from
https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-20/timeline-the-womens-
rights-movement-in-the-us