I really want to help!?

Question

I'm a 16 year old girl that really belives in gender equality, i see alot of women suffer and see how their not treated equally, their abused and so on! I want to help women like that, i know i can make a difference, i want to help women and make my voice heard, but the problem is i don't know where to start! What should i do, and how should i do it? Please give me ideass!!

Thankyou!

Answer 1

make an underground feminist activist group!

i've always wanted to make one, but all my boring friends in their boring lives have been brought up to think we're all living in some totally equal society. If you want some inspiration, check out www.guerillagirls.com  or try reading up about the Take Back The Night marches that were held in America, theres also Equal Pay day in USA, (Aprill 22 this year) which marks how long women have to work to make up for the previous years losses. Typically red is the colour to wear on that day. Hope it helps   :)

and, oh, cool, another southern hemisphere dweller.

Answer 2

I'm not sure how you can tackle this exact problem, but you can latch onto an already thriving charity that does help with them

Try to find a fundraising liscence from Amnesty International and raise some money!

Answer 3

Feminism...is where you start.

"Feminism is the radical thought that women are people"

it got women in the US the right to vote, an education, ability to choose what ever job she wants, to drive, etc etc etc

there is an other wave coming...google learn ask Q here.

knowledge is the best place to start.

Answer 4

well I don't know about sydney but it's equal in america.

Answer 5

Contact the closest women's shelter.

You will learn much.

Answer 6

Good for you.

First, recognize people like Anatol and Axn for the bitter, bigoted losers they are. There are people like that in the world, and yours (and my) job is to sideline them and their attitudes into the extremist corners where they belong. They are sad, pathetic people. Pity them, but don't allow them any influence in the world.

Second, at a local level, you can get started collecting women's clothing and personal hygiene supplies, plus baby clothing and baby bottles, formula, etc. for women's shelters. Volunteer at a shelter or a charity food pantry. These places always need help and supplies, and it's a GREAT way to see some positive results from your work.

Answer 7

I am a feminist and recommend beginning by reading the history of the woman's movement.  Learn about how all of humanity has been rising in social consciousness above the savage fearful ways of Master / Slave moralities.  Learn about how men fought for their rights to have freedom, democracies and constitutional protections of their inalienable rights.  That rise in social consciousness is called humanism.  

Humanists believe that we cannot be free unless we are RATIONAL, can think for ourselves and can be self-determining.  Thanks to beautiful intelligent thinking and writing by early feminists like Mary Woolstonecraft in the 1790's, women began to demand rational educations rather than just mere "domestic training".  With that rise in rationality and greater access to educational opportunities, women all over the world except in three neolithic socially primitive Muslim nations demanded and won now in courts the right to vote and the right to legal protections for their inalienable rights.

Feminism and the women's rights movement continues worldwide.  The focus of the U.N. related to the rise of women is reducing the poverty and violence that more women suffer worldwide than do men.  The focus of the Millenium Group of the World Bank is to ensure educational access for all people in the world, including all girls, by 2012, I believe.  

And, in developed nations such as the U.S., Canada and the UK, feminism remains a vital force in restructurings of society in order to better accomodate women, and to defend our gains from "traditionalists" who are vicious fascists and feeble-minded magical-thinking religious fundamentalists who illogically believe in "gender roles" in which women are not allowed to be free and self-determining.  They are a constant threat to women's freedoms and they spend billions of dollars every year opposing all legislation except their pet conservative anti-woman agenda including making it as hard as possible on working mothers.  They seek constantly to take away the legal protections for the rights of women.  

Feminism today in developed nations struggles to eliminate negative social messages that harm females, such as the media's sexual objectification of young girls.  And, feminism continues to struggle against sexist bigotry and social misogyny (the mental illness of hatred for women) found rampant even in our religions.

Answer 8

Go to some other 3rd world country where women really have it bad. Perhaps you would discover the men there have it bad too. But I doubt it.

Answer 9

Where do you live, cause in America women are equal. In fact women can fill any job position a man can (not that they can do it as well as a man!) Seriously if you want a worth while campaign, fight for abused children, they are the ones who are really in need.

Answer 10

First, realize that your goal is not that important.  Yes, there are women being abused but humans have been abused throughout history.  How many men have died from being drafted in wars as opposed to women?  Also realize that the sexes are equal in life value but different in abilities and those differences should be observed.

If you really wish to make something an impassioned endeavor, may I suggest something like stopping animal testing?