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uppityperson

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6. Keeping someone poor is not advocating for equal rights.
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 06:13 PM
Feb 2015

I guess your question, that quote, is about economic and social rights, how they interact or if they are separate and equal things.

Keeping women poor while denying them equal rights is not much different than keeping women poor while advocating for their {ETA: EQUAL} rights.


Keeping anyone poor is not advocating for equal rights, even if those equal rights are for other things like voting, or, not sure what. So i do not understand the second part of that quote because economics and sociological rights are so inter-twined.

Women can only have economic parity when societal equal rights are addressed and societal equal rights need economic parity to work also.

As an example of how they interact...
My first professional job (mid 70's) I was asked when I planned to marry and (implied) have babies and (again implied) become a homemaker rather than a professional because they weren't sure if they should risk all the time and money to fully orient and train me in the position if I were just going to go get knocked up. Raises were higher for the few men in my position because "they needed to support a family" and us wommin were just playing around.

One of the highest paying and best benefits jobs I have had was being a janitor, contracting with a company, that was ok hiring whoever could do the job. This was mid way between Then and Now.

So, Keeping women poor while denying them equal rights (seems like saying the same thing) is not much different than keeping women poor while advocating for their {ETA: EQUAL} rights (which I have no clue what that means).

I am not sure if I am clear here, please let me know and I'll try again.

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