Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves

Appreciation

The hit duet “Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves”, which was performed by Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin, was first released in 1985. The main idea of this song is the standing of the women in today’s society.

There are three stanzas which all have rather the same content.

The first one says that women had to belong to a man in the past but nowadays it’s different. Women can stand on their own feet and they are independent.

In the second stanza we can see the aim of this song, namely to celebrate the liberty of the women of every age. In the past they were the inferior sex, but till now they have became stronger and now they also get better jobs like doctor, lawyer or other jobs in which you have to have much responsibility. Years ago that wasn’t possible. The only job for women was housewife and taking care about the children. Now, women are everywhere, even in policy.

The last stanza is about the same like the other two but in a longer form.

This song expresses that in that time women have been the inferiors of their husbands. Now they can look for themselves and are able to reach every goal they want to reach. Although women are stronger, almost independent and more confident now, they still can love a man in the same way as before.

We think the writers of “Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves” wants to say what women can reach if they hold together and how strong they can be. There are still countries in the world where women have no rights and everything is controlled by men because the female sex has no appreciation. With this song they maybe want to comfort the women in these countries to stand up against them and to get emancipated with the men.

It’s very easy to conclude this song. It’s about the inferior sex all over the world that has no confidence from the male sex. Women aren’t worse in any way and this song celebrates the fact that the situation for them has been becoming better.