Equality & Diversity is one of the wonders of the world yet we hear so much from the political Correct types screaming about much of what they know little about.
To understand Equality & Diversity we need to have an understanding of both our own history and of others, it appears that many people seem to think sexual equality has been around forever and that women have had full rights since time began, but looking back its only been in the last 50 years, that the warriors of womens rights have made any sort of impact and only in the last ten years has it made a significant change in attitudes, with many of us still having parents around that lived in an unequal world, it is a stark reminder that, it is important for our daughters that we maintain the fight for equality, through active education and sensible policies to encourage everyone to apply respect and dignity into the work place, we have to remember that humanity is colourful and has been designed like it to ensure the survival of our species therefore if we do not encourage and support our women and encourage them to succeed we all will suffer great loss even possible extinction as a species. Thinking about the ratio's, women still remain around 50% of the population of the planet Earth and so i'm told this sometimes peaks at 60%.
Our Laws in the UK have come from various sources such as the Human Rights Act and domestic Laws that were, hard fought for by Brave women as far back as In 1848 in the USA with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and four other women invited the public to the First Women's Rights Convention to discuss expanding the role of women in America.
Here in the UK the fight for equality really began with Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Her book, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is one of the most important documents in the history of women's rights. I'll leave you with the thought thats its now the 21st century and we are still having serious issues with equality and yet it took us from around the year 1778 to the year 2007 to enshrine the essence of Mary Wollstonecraft's vision into Law and we still haven't rid ourselves of the inequality.
Friday, September 14, 2007