Jem Milton

FEMINISM IS THE STRUGGLE TO END SEXIST

Equal pay
Equal educational and job opportunities
Free contraception and abortion on demand
Free 24-hour nurseries
Legal and financial independence for all women
The right to self-defined sexuality and an end to discrimination against lesbians
Freedom from intimidation by the threat or use of violence or sexual coercion; and an end to the laws, assumptions and institutions which perpetuate male dominance and aggression to women.

THE #ME TOO MOVEMENT EXPOSED WIDESPREAD AND HISTORIC SEXUAL ABUSE

“PATRIARCHAL REFERS TO POWER RELATIONS IN WHICH WOMEN’S INTERESTS ARE SUBORDINATED TO THE INTERESTS OF MEN.”

“PATRIARCHAL POWER RESTS ON SOCIAL GIVEN TO BIOLOGICAL SEXUAL DIFFERENCE.”

Patriarchy is an ideology that is manifested in practice by the subordination of the interests of women

that “women were women by virtue of a certain lack of qualities

women’s and men’s differences are a result of biology

Essentialism sees men as able to think logically, abstractly and analytically, while women are

mainly emotional, compassionate and nurturing creatures.