Collective Evolution
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Feminism is a movement that works
towards creating equality between sexes and women’s rights. Though I
fully support equality and all to have freedom and rights, I believe
that aspects of this movement have created separation amongst
us, stemming from over-identifying with gender.
If we look at gender issues,
particularly women’s issues, we’ve seen massive amounts of inequality
throughout history. For example, look at all of our founding ‘fathers’
of science, quantum physics, engineering, psychology, etc. Gender
inequality exists within every field of academia. Many ‘groundbreaking’
discoveries have been attributed to men, and solely to men.
Many have been stolen from women, simply because they were women, and
many discoveries made by women have gone completely unacknowledged by
academia. The wage gap is another example of inequality, but more on
that later.
One of my favourite examples women in history is Rachel Carson, a major player in the environmental movement today. Carson sparked the entire movement in the 1960s with her book Silent Spring. She
is a writer, biologist, environmentalist and ecologist. The book
documented the dangers of pesticides and herbicides, something that we
are still trying to create awareness about today. I wrote an article a few years ago regarding ‘female revolutionaries’ you won’t hear about
in history class if you’d like to see some more examples.
It is my hope that one day we will have a book that details all revolutionary minds, regardless of their gender, or even race.
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