What are your personal thoughts about Women's Rights? (Questions below)

Question

1. How has examining your beliefs, assumptions, and values related to Women's rights impacted how you process information in your daily life? For example, consider claims made by politicians, news headlines, tweets by celebrities, or articles shared by your family on social media.
2. What changes, big or small, have occurred in how you apply historical inquiry skills to classes, your personal life, and/or your career?

Answer 1

I get most of my info from women I read and organizations I've joined. I conclude after decades that the major destroyer of Women's Rights is not claiming them as Human Rights. Every time you generate a specialty you destroy rights; trans rights, Gay rights, [ some race] rights.

My biggest change has been in reading Edith Stein but they are so big that I can't address them here.

. The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are."

"Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.”

The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds … empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call."

AND MY FAVORITE

“Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day’s work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.”

— Edith Stein