Feminism - The Pill

The aims of feminism:
1. To fight for the FREEDOM and EQUALITY of women
2. To end practices and social norms that harm the freedom and quality of women

Science and technology have expanded the freedom and equality of women to only a limited extent. Given the many ways to conquer and spread the awareness of increased equality of women, discrimination still exist within certain conservative societies where its people are fixated on their culture and beliefs that downplayed the potential of women and trap women in their traditional roles of being a domestic housewife and a subordinate to their men.

The advancement of machinery has minimize the need for men to display their physical strength and for the men to play a key role in the workforce. Machinery have lighten the workload in many aspects of the workforce, causing the economy to be driven more on creativity, knowledge and leadership. In the recent years, this has allowed women to be more inclusive in the workforce and to be of much significance to the society.

The invention of internet and social media websites has also increased awareness if issues and injustice faced by women. This brings together the feminist and its allies to fight for a change in today's world. At the same time, it is promoting a wider acceptance to gender equality and freedom for women.

However, the improvement in science and technology does not necessarily bring about an improvement in gender equality and freedom for women, but rather the reverse. The Internet which has increased accessibility, speed and convince especially with the invention of smart phones, has brought about the objectification of women (Process of representing or treating a person like a sex object, one that serves another's sexual pleasure). On the Internet, 96% of images are of female portraying or selling objects. Such images are becoming more extreme and hyper sexualised. Accompanied with the audience that the Internet is inviting and the number of advertisement on the Internet that has a 10000 times compared to 1971, people are being widely exposed to the idea that women are a form of sexual object and neglecting the well being of females.

Advertising of women and using the technology of digital retouching have caused females to be more self-conscious about their appearance. The wide exposure and displaying of female models after digital retouching has result in the society to view women who are flawless and slim to be the ideal type of body, which all females would want to achieve. Females start to depend on slimming pills, dieting related products to help them in achieving the 'ideal body' size. This can be seen the consumption of weight loss products. The revenue that wright-loss products industry earn amounted to more than US$60 billion as compared to the food industry which is about only US$14 billion.

The transparency of social media and the ease of uploading photos on to the interne has caused women to be....