Our group's purpose was to educate and bring awareness to women’s oppression while also examining the issue in today’s society. Each group member focused on a sub-topic within women’s oppression. We focused on women in the workplace, homeless women, and the media's portrayal of women. Women’s oppression in today’s society is something that we all feel passionate about. Being women ourselves, we wanted to know more about the issues affecting women in this country.
-- As we know, we have experienced this ourselves. --
We created a survey with questions that we felt best represented our topic as a whole as well as our sub-topics. We posted the survey on the CCGA website, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter. We wanted our research platform to be much larger than just CCGA staff and students.
Charlotte Bunch stated in the article “Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights” that “Sex discrimination kills women daily. When combined with race, class, and other forms of oppression, it constitutes a deadly denial of women's right to life and liberty on a large scale” (Bunch 489). We needed to see how people in our current society felt about women’s oppression. Does society realize that this is a present issue, do women who are currently experiencing this or have experienced this realize that it is not normal. We hoped to get these answers from our survey.