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In her report, Veronica Loveday writes about Women’s Rights Movement, during World War two, and many restrictions women faced. Women’s rights movement in the U.S. begun in the 1960s as a reaction to the decades of unfair social and civil inequities faced by women. Over the next thirty years, feminists campaigned for equality, such as equal pay, equal work , and abortion rights. Women finally gained the right to vote with the passage of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 1920.

Women have been active since the beginning of the early 1800’s and struggle until today’s day, to fight for equality. There were two women movement waves. The first wave was focused on the equality of the women by working on voting rights. The second wave from 1963 to 1982 concentrated on social issues. As in “Collective Action for Social Change”, Aaron Schutz and Marie Sandy stated in their book “women were tired of being second class citizens”. The civil rights movement spillover inspired women to create social movements by acting and building organizations focused on the issues that affected the women. The social issues were child care, domestic violence, contraception, and women’s health. One of the major topics that the feminists focused on was domestic violence that still exists in today’s day worldwide.

The Women's Rights Movement was a significant crusade for women that began in the late nineteenth century and flourished throughout Europe and the United States for the rest of the twentieth century. Advocates for women's rights initiated this movement as they yearned for equality and equal participation and representation in society. Throughout all of history, the jobs of women ranged from housewives to factory workers, yet oppression by society, particularly men, accompanied them in their everyday lives. Not until the end of the nineteenth century did women begin to voice their frustrations about the inequalities among men and women, and these new proclamations would be the basis for a society with opportunities starting to open for

To this day the women’s suffrage movement ignites women in the present to keep those right burning. Alice Paul and her fellow women suffrages demonstrated through speeches, lobbying and petitioning Congressional Committees, with parades, picketing and demonstrations, and with arrest that lead to imprisonment. These women express courage that women still uphold for years after their legacy has passed on, such as the article “Women’s Strike for Equality,” by Linda Napikoski, in the demonstration that was held on August 26, 1970 on the 50th anniversary of women’s suffrage. As well as an article “Women to Protest For Equality Today,” by United Press that talks about on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the women’s suffrage and “declared war on firms that Damage the Image,” of the fair sex. Alice Paul, set the stage for inspiring women to fight for their rights everywhere across the world.

The extension of women’s rights from 1877 to the mid 1970s, has changed over time along with the ideals of the different eras. From the original traditional values to those wild and free spirits that dominated the culture in the seventies, since then women and their rights have changed.

These radical feminists believed that the origin of gender discrimination could be found in the values of American society. They declared that men were raised to view women as sex objects, rather than equal human beings, and that this arrogance led to violence, including rape and physical abuse, committed against women. These feminists focused on restructuring the way women were represented in the media, literature, and popular culture (Loveday,

Looking back with a historical lens, it’s evident that the fight for women’s rights has progressed in a step wise process. The nineteenth amendment opened a new door of opportunities for women to take advantage of. In modern times, the continued push for equal rights is evident through the fight for reproductive rights and equal pay. Even with the right to vote, women are still being under represented and out of control when it comes to their reproductive rights and in the workplace. Opposing beliefs regarding feminism have prevented the progression of more gender equality in the United States. What originally started as a plea for a political voice helped to shape the history of the nation. Women’s suffrage paved the way for countless groups and further feminist

While Western Civilization: Volume 2: Since 1500 by Jackson J. Spielvogal and Wikipedia overlap at certain points, Spielvogal’s book provides a large overview of the feminist movement in the 1960s to 1980s. Compared to Spielvogal, Wikipedia goes more in-depth with the people involved, the issues they were fighting for, and the laws they were able to get passed. Even though they have their differences, both are informative and give the reader an acceptable idea as to the feminist movement of the 1960s to 1980s.

The women’s rights movement was a huge turning point for women because they had succeeded in the altering of their status as a group and changing their lives of countless men and women. Gender, Ideology, and Historical Change: Explaining the Women’s Movement was a great chapter because it explained and analyzed the change and causes of the women’s movement. Elaine Tyler May’s essay, Cold War Ideology and the Rise of Feminism and Women’s Liberation and Sixties Radicalism by Alice Echols both gave important but different opinions and ideas about the women’s movement. Also, the primary sources reflect a number of economic, cultural, political, and demographic influences on the women’s movement. This chapter

How women’s rights has changed over time and what phases it has gone through to get to where it is now. Feminism has gone through three phases since the 1830s when women first started to protest for women's rights. First it started out with political power, getting the right to vote was a huge first step in their process. Women wouldn't be able to do anything

The Women’s Right Movement happened from 1848 to 1998 in the United States (1). The first women’s right convention is held in Seneca Falls (2). Back in the 19th century, women didn’t allow to vote and had no voice in their community; Moreover, they lost their respect from others. In 1912, 4 million women eligible to vote for the first time and from

The feminist movement of the 1960’s was generally revolved around the idea that women should not be treated with inequality in the workplace and also should be allowed to work in better jobs with higher paying salary. Howard Smith a representative of Virginia instated a proposal that will dismantle any gender discrimination, however; the congressmen did not appeal but by the help of Martha Griffiths the enactment of this proposal was passed. Soon feminists, who involved Betty Friedan, made a decision to establish a movement which its intentions were to strive and demolish gender discrimination. They did not want to overthrow the existing bureaucracy but instead proclaimed that women should be involved. They utilized ways in which helped them

Evans begins her story by mentioning in the 1960s, “most Americans hardly knew there was such a thing as feminism”( Evans 58). With a “dramatic expansion of education and service industries”(Evans 61) after WW2, millions of jobs opened up for women. Women with graduate degrees still were a small minority, but the small influx began to change the behavior of both men and women. By the mid-1960s, “people married later and more of them not at all” (Evans 65). Equality and liberation were the demands that launched the Second Wave of women’s rights activism. Women began creating women’s liberation groups where women could “think independently of male-supremacist values”(

Liberal feminism believes that women’s inequality is due to lack of equal opportunity. They focus on gaining equality in the public sphere and changing the systems of inequality (Feminism, 2001). In the 19th and 20th centuries, liberal feminists focused completely on rights. Those rights, were thought to be the only means for women to have full freedom. When demands for certain rights were gained, such as the 19th Amendment, liberal feminism began to dissolve. It was later revived in the 1960s, with the establishment of women's rights groups (Liberal Feminism,

As noted by scholars such as Robinson (2001), the feminist movement of the 20th century was motivated by social and political movement in the United States; the purpose of the movement was to establish women equality. This movement was a success as it transformed the women lives and was able to exert profound impact on the American society. The first two decades had marked emergence of women groups that aimed to attain women suffrage, pushing for constitutional amendments for women to be guaranteed the right to vote in the 1920. This was not the only agenda the women movement advocated for, women again banded together to push for formulation for Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). However, this was not approved in the 1970s. Consequently, the women used this as a rallying point for those diverse women group and brought the attention to the feminist cause.