Examples Of Community Effie Hobby

In the United States, a woman earns 78 cents for every dollar a man makes. Women do not have as many rights as they deserve in some countries. Women’s rights are rights that raise a position of legal and social equality for women with men. Effie Hobby was a woman that lived in America at a time when women were fighting for their right to vote. Malala Yousafzai is a woman that survived being shot by the Taliban. Previously, she lived in Pakistan but now she is a 17-year-old girl with the honor of being the youngest-ever Nobel Peace laureate. Finally, Loujain Al Hathloul and Maysaa Al Amoudi are two brave women who took the chance to drive in Saudi Arabia, even though the government does not allow women to drive. Three examples of a community
being affected by women’s rights are the women who were not allowed to vote in the 1900s in America, how young Pakistani children are encouraged not to go to school, and the women that are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. Effie Hobby fought for her right to vote in the 1900s; she and all her supporters that fought with her are part of a group of women that were looked down upon.
When Hobby was in high school, she was a member of the Girl Scouts and she assisted the homeland defense in March 1917, at the start of World War I. “During the war, Girl Scouts sold war bonds, collected peach pits for use in gas mask filters, and learned how to save food. During World War I, the women's rights movement was put on hold…When women got the right, Effie was 23, and she made sure that she would vote” (“Effie Hobby’s Story”). This demonstrates how women were treated unfairly due to their gender because women in the early 20th century wanted to help people going through the war. But, even after women protested and fought for the right to vote, as they deserved, their movement was put on hold. The women thought that this was completely unfair, but later they finally achieved what they were fighting for. After women in America got their right to vote for government officials, Pakistani women were suffering through somewhat of the same
problem.
Young girls in Pakistan 2012 were encouraged to not go to school, demonstrating how woman were unfairly treated even after Malala Yousafzai fought for her and her peers to go to school. As a nine year old, Malala and her classmates were told not to return to school, since Radio Mullah believed it was wrong to do so. As it says in her novel I Am Malala, “My mother now insisted that I never walk to school by myself, for fear that I would be seen alone in my school uniform by the Taliban. Every day, I noticed a few more of our classmates were missing. And every night on his radio show, Fazullah [Radio Mullah] kept up his attacks, saying that girls who went to school were not good Muslims-that we would go to hell” (86). This represents how women in Pakistan were unfairly treated. Even though Malala’s passion and majority of her life was attending school and learning at school, Malala was told to forget about her school life and live her life at home. The little girls in Pakistan, like Malala, wanted to go to school, but their families and government officials forced them not to, for the sake of their lives. After 3 years of fighting to go to school, Pakistan’s neighbor, Saudi Arabia, was going through issues with women’s rights.
In February 2015, Loujain Al Hathloul and Maysaa Al Amoudi were two women that had a brave idea to drive in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, even though it is banned for women to drive there.
After seventy-two days in jail, Loujain and Maysaa were finally released from their detention home, “Women in the country continue to live under male guardianship rules and are forbidden from driving. Saudi Arabia is the only country that forbids women drivers. Despite the fact that no law explicitly prohibits women from driving in Saudi Arabia, the government has refused to grant them licenses” (Al Omran). This proves that women are discriminated against because it is allowed for women the drive in every other country except Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Arabian government believes that women should not be trusted with the responsibility of driving, since they believe men are superior, so they usually do the cooking and cleaning at home. Women in Saudi Arabia cannot drive and are unable to do other things like enter a cemetery or go anywhere without a male chaperone in their country which are legal in other
countries.
To sum it up, women are still being discriminated all around the world in different time periods- from the 1900s when American women were getting their right to vote, to Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan trying to go to school with her friends in 2012, and finally to the Saudi Arabian women proving a point to the government about driving in 2015. These three can all relate to the government in different countries because they think men are more superior to women. But, feminism has been decreasing all over the world as the human race progresses. A famous women’s rights campaigner in the 1860s, Susan B. Anthony, said, “The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.”