Remember the Ladies

Despite living in what is often considered a progressive, educated, informed era where anything you wish to know can be found at the tap of a key or the click of a mouse, women are still faced with discrimination, abuse, and inequality. Until that changes, there is a need for feminism. The sexism comes in different ways than it did in the past: where women could not go to school or vote or work in decades previous, today, we are not allowed to be paid equally for the work we do, to evenly represent the institutions we support with our votes, and are treated as objects. And that's just in the part of the world that considers itself to be "First World". In other places, a woman still does not have basic rights. And no one will fight unless we fight for ourselves.

This tumblr will be dedicated to posts that put a spotlight on the inequalities with which women are faced, the abuse that is endured every day, the stereotyping that keeps us locked in given roles, as well as women who are pushing the boundaries, who are fighting these things, who are redefining what it is to be a woman in today's world.

"...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
— Abigail Adams