League of Women Voters of Indiana

http://www.lwvin.org/

The website I looked at is the site for a group called the League of Women Voters of Indiana. I chose an Idiana group because that state has some of the most restrictive birth control laws, which is an issue that affects women. They are an organisation who aim to encourage women to take part in politics in order to influence public policy. Although more women vote than men, in 2012 only 63.7% of the female population of voting age cast their vote in the election.This means that there is still a significant number of women who do not vote in America. By encouraging them to take part in what was once a male-dominated sphere, LWIN are advocating the views of First Wave Feminism, which was focused on getting women the right to vote and then making sure they did so.

One of the women's issues mentioned on the LWIN homepage is protection for unmarried couples and same-sex families. The inclusion of same-sex families implies that the group follows Third Wave Feminism, which accepts plurality and includes gay women in its ideals and concepts. Another issue they discuss on their homepage is birth control. The group is pro-choice and supports a woman's right to have control over her own body. The group is also concerned with child care and education, which could be seen as women's issues as they traditionally, as mothers, they have more of an interest in their child and the education that it gets. Child care is an issue important to women today as feminism has allowed women to be single mothers and/or to go back to work after having a child. Child care is one way to help women who have made that lifestyle choice.

However, some feminists, might disagree with some of the issues LWIN focuses on. By specifically singling out child care and education as policies that women would be interested in, the group is placing the role of women back into the home and in the role of provider for the child. The "Bills of Interest" provided for LWIN by the Indiana House and Senate do not include any bills on traditionally more male areas of politics, such as employment.