The Importance Of Women's Rights And The Fight For Equality

black-male voice in the fight for women’s suffrage. Douglass unlike many men believed that women too were people and deserved all of the rights a man was given. He believed this because black men were previously apart from the equality of all men, and they too should be apart in gaining this equality for all. Douglass, along with other strong willed women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, among others, they became the forefront of Women’s Suffrage in the 1848

The very first women’s rights convention was held in 1948 that caused an uproar and showed many citizens to fight for equality of all sexes. Many suffragists like Susan B Anthony and the Grimke sisters worked hard to get their word out such as public speakings and petitions. Without having these suffragists speaking up for what is right, the United States wouldn’t nearly be the same it is today. Although it was a long struggle, laws were passed such as to secure a woman’s right to vote or to allow

is of utmost importance, and it is imperative that people continue to be educated about equality. Teaching people what it actually means to be a feminist is of utmost importance to me. In other words, I feel it is my duty to clear up misunderstandings about what feminists all over the world are actually fighting for. A common misconception of the movement is that feminists believe that women are better than men. However, the definition of feminism is “the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds

struggle to make their voices heard so that today’s challenges can be an aspiration in equality for the future. To understand the struggle women are facing around the world, individuals look to feminists and conflict theories that empower and drive domination and oppression. Feminist theorists like West and Zimmerman, MacKinnon, and Smith defend women’s rights and call for an open and organized society that promotes equality for all genders, ethnic, cultural, and religious groups. Additionally, one of the

1960s and 1970s, in what is considered the “Second Wave of Feminism’, the fight for Women's Equality was seen by most as a secondary concern to racial equality. This led the Women's Movement to combine the fight for racial equality with gender equality, seeking to bring a more diverse group of women together to achieve the goals of the movement. Whether this approach led to accomplishing these goals is questionable. The Women's Movement struggled due to the very diversity it sought to capitalize on

in peace needs equality of men and women because humans don’t fight if all humans have equality. Everyone has a chance to get peace and happiness, but some people cannot because of custom. For example, in the past, women had to work for men, and there was a gender discrimination. From 19th to early 20th century, women fought against women’s issues such as education, economic, violence, and abortion because women’s position is very low and weak, so they couldn’t have decision rights. However, the society

early 20th century, women fought for the right to vote, through protests, and eventually achieved this goal. Fashion was influenced during this time- going from conservative Victorian-style ways of dressing to more free ones. During the second wave of feminism, taking place in between the 1960’s and 1980’s, women fought for social and sexual freedom, through protests as well, and even going to Supreme Court, to lobby laws that encouraged women’s reproductive rights. The emergence of iconic pieces of clothing

movement to today’s international women’s march, each of these chapters have had different icons and revolutionaries, but overall have kept the same idea in mind; to achieve equality amongst all sexes and diminish the patriarchal society, where men are the rulers of society, in order to ensure both men and women are given the same opportunities to achieve in life. First wave feminism, from the 1800s to early 1900s, is defined by brave women who understood the importance in gaining political power, starting

history, regarding feminism rights, began during the women’s movement from 1848 to 1920. Many women activists worked with endeavor to bring hope to women who did not have same rights as men did, such as not having a voice in the political election. Even though feminist groups did not have sufficient power, they believed that one-day women were going to have a prosperous future. It was a remarkable movement that showed how women activists gained victory for their rights by surpassing barriers, and

similar rights. The progressive era was when the fight for these rights began. It started with a group of men and women who collaborated in Seneca Falls, New York to fight for women’s rights movement. During this time, no other public meeting had occurred, but the movement continued to grow. Susan B. Anthony, strong and outspoken advocate of women's rights, pushed for the inclusion of women’s and African-American male vote in the 14th amendment. This was the start of a large change through women’s history