{"id":1246,"date":"2017-01-27T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2017-01-26T11:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:00:06","slug":"when-women-mobilize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2017\/01\/27\/when-women-mobilize\/","title":{"rendered":"When Women Mobilize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Mobilus In Mobili, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In one of the <\/span>largest days of protest in recent history<\/span><\/a>, the <\/span>Women\u2019s March on Washington<\/a>\u00a0and its sister marches<\/span>\u00a0drew millions of people out into the streets of major American cities to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump and to call for protecting the rights of women, immigrants, and other groups that are likely to be further marginalized by the Trump administration. A look at research on past women\u2019s movements sheds light on the ways that\u00a0gender shapes when and how women protest, and the important roles they have played in social movement history.<\/span><\/p>\n

While some argue that women are too diverse to constitute an \u201cissue group,\u201d women\u2019s social mobilization around issues of reproductive, labor, and voting rights has had an important impact on movement culture in the United States. In fact, women\u2019s groups were some of the first to work outside of the existing political system by relying on changing public opinion, rather than voting, as a movement strategy.<\/span><\/h5>\n