Similarities Between Emmeline Pankhurst And Malala Yousafzai

In both the British Industrial Revolution and in the current day, the fight for women's rights has played a huge role throughout history with the help of many past and present women's rights activists including Emmeline Pankhurst and Malala Yousafzai. Them, and many others men and women helped to fight for what they believed in. These two women saw a problem in their society and decided to dedicate their lives to fighting for it, and because of these and many other fighters, and slowly these issues in inequality.
Many men and women, including Emmeline Pankhurst and Malala Yousafzai have been fighting their entire lives for gender equality and their work has changed the past and will affect the future.
Both Malala and Emmeline are well known
They saw women being treated below are not as good as men. They both found this very unfair and decided to dedicate their lives to making women as equal as men. But, because they lived in different time periods their ways for fighting for their gender are different. In the early 1900’s, Emmeline fought for women's suffrage; the chance for women to vote for leaders in government like men got to do without having to earn it. She fought for that because that is what was the most current thing that women did not have the chance to do. Malala fought and is still fighting for girl's rights to go to school in Pakistan, which is against the wishes of the Taliban. The Taliban are a political group that has taken over the government in Middle East Asia, where she and many others live. While growing up both of these women could not wrap their heads around why women did not have the same rights as men. In Emmeline Pankhurst’s book she writes “This vague feeling of mine began to shape itself into conviction about the time my brothers and I were sent to school. The education of the English boy, then as now, was considered a much more serious matter than the education of the English boy's sister” (My Own Story, Emmeline Pankhurst). They saw men and women exactly the same and they did not know why they were considered separate in society. To them the only difference between the 2 genders were the
Many people already think that women are equal to men, but these people could be seen as naive for not noticing something that is such a big fight. But, the people who do see it see that it is unfair and fight for it. These people, including Malala Yousafzai and Emmeline Pankhurst, have been put in dangerous situations or even imprisoned by those who believe that women should be below men. These people have and will do dangerous things that can be life threatening to many people around them. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Malala faced her biggest challenge in being a women’s rights activist. On her way to school one day, a member of the Taliban came onto her bus looking for her. This member of the Taliban “he fired three shots, one after another. The first went through my left eye socket and out under my left shoulder” (I Am Malala, page 9). The shooter was looking for her because she had just been revealed as the anonymous blogger who had been criticizing the Taliban. As the blogger, she continued to post things that disagreed with the policies that the Taliban had put in place when they took over the government. She still continued it because she did not want to just sit on the sidelines while people were taking away her right to go to school. This was dangerous, but she wanted gender equality. Even though people believe in gender equality most of them do not have the courage to do what Malala