Disadvantages Of Feminism

Feminism is a range of ideas and approaches that seek to create sexual and gender equality for women. It focuses to achieve equal rights for females in different parts of society. Though these feminist movements were successful over the years, there’s a whole lot left to accomplish before we can say equality between men and women has been reached. All over, women are still at a disadvantage despite their successful liberation campaigns.
Since the first feminist movement, women have campaigned and continue to, in order to gain the rights and opportunities society had deprived them of for generations. In 1837, Charles Fourier, a French philosopher is known to be the first person to coined the term, feminist. Since then, feminists around the world have created different goals to deal with the different problems they face. The most memorable feminist’s movement perhaps was the first-wave movement. This took place in countries like UK and US during the early 20th century where it advocated to promote equal contract in marriage, voting rights, parenting

Sports is a clear example of women’s disparity in the society we live in. First of all, a lot of sports tend to be physical, so we assume that females are not well equipped to partake because of their tender and passive manner; therefore, society attempts to reduce their participation. Women are treated poorly with the opportunities and resources that are geared towards them. In an online article entitled; Women’s Rights, Galen Sherwin stated that the resources invested into boys’ and girls’ sports are massively unequal (Webster, 2017). Indeed, if you were to compare the number of resources that promote female sporting activities with that of males, you will notice huge differences. A clear example of this is the large investments that are engaged for male football teams in Punta Gorda town while a small cut is allocated to promote female soccer