The Struggle For Gender Equality

“Compare and contrast women’s suffrage movements of the late nineteenth and early centuries with the European feminist movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s.”

Women have been fighting the fight for women’s rights for a long time. In fact, evidence can be traced back centuries of women’s desire for equality. Specifically, women have fought for their rights in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

During the rise of women’s rights movement in the time period of 1940 to 1975 they have been discriminated by inequalities of gender roles. Although women were proving to society that they work just as hard as men, they still were not treated as equal. In World War 1 and 2 a majority of men were gone due to the war so women took over but were still rated as less than a man. Along with this the the nineteenth amendment came to place giving women the right to vote. This was their time to accomplish more things that they wanted which is to be able to decide and do things and not be left out based on their sex.

The movement for women’s suffrage began well before the Progressive Era, in in the 1820’s, when women joined groups that wanted reforms. This was a difficult time for women to have a voice because they were mainly seen as property and should

Throughout the early twentieth century, women of all ages worked together to fight for equality amongst men and women. From the time of flappers, to the ratification of the nineteenth amendment, to new opportunities during World War II, women have shown strength, bravery, and determination to receive equality for all. Women saw their greatest achievements and advancements economically, followed by the socially and politically. In politics, it was predicted that women would begin to gain opportunities and high paying jobs.

As the century immediately following the American Revolution, the 19th century experienced a rise in feminism as it harbored the first feminist movement in America. Although some women chose to embrace their “roots” by retaining their domestic sphere of influence, many women began to show discontent with the limited number of rights women held. Soon enough, the fight for women’s rights resulted in women gaining more prominence in society.

The struggle for women's emancipation transcended national boundaries. In 19th century Western society, movements for the emancipation of women from their legal and social subjection to males arose in a number of Western countries. Women’s suffrage was the next logical step towards full independence and freedom. 2.

Furthermore “But the final triumph for woman suffrage in the United States was neither easy nor automatic. It took more decades of organizing, it took street demonstrations by Alice Paul's National Woman's Party, and it took the patriotic efforts of women during World War I to achieve victory” (Matthews Suffrage, Woman). The women of the 1920s worked hard for their rights and their sacrifices cannot be undermined Although the issues such as rape, domestic

Instead of arguing that women and men were created equal, the new generation argued that women were different from men. They thought that women were different from men and could bring diverse views and something new to the political body. Women eventually changed the Constitution by accepting to be a part of the Equal Rights movement era. All supporters of this movement marched, rallied, petitioned, picketed, went on hunger strikes, and committed acts of civil disobedience. This movement called for equality of women and even supporting black men and their new found freedoms as well. This movement was even getting attention internationally as the new French government established the Ministry for Women’s Rights to promote equality. Women’s work on behalf of the war effort proved that women are just as patriotic and deserving of the vote as men. Beginning in 1910, some western states began to allow women the right to vote. Idaho and Utah had given women the right to vote at the end of the19th century. Yet the more established southern and eastern states still resisted and wouldn’t allow women to

Women’s suffrage, and gender equality, is one example of contemporary events repeating history because there were similar struggles between the early 1900s and today. Starting in the 1900s, women’s suffrage was still highly controversial, and ridiculed in the press. Women’s suffrage, the definition obtained in the dictionary, is the right of women to vote (The Definition of Gender Equality). Women’s suffrage, and various gender equality associations, were unpopular for many reasons: some feared the equality would destroy families, others did not want women drafted into war and granted special privileges. Through that all, women still kept their eyes on the prize. They sought equality and the right to vote, the right to be equal

Over the course of history, gender inequalities have been a prevalent issue amongst countries around the world. The notion, women are inferior to men has shaped their treatment in all aspects of life. Women were subjected to a patriarchal role in society, the men worked and women took care of domestics to some degree greater or lesser depending the country they resided in. In the late 19th and early 20th century women started rising up against male dominated societies in feminist movements. These movements were campaigns and reform plans to combat issues of equal pay, sexual violence, and denial of suffrage, reproductive rights, equal job opportunities and property rights. Thus observing women in Great Britain and Saudi Arabia today one can see how the role women play in society has dramatically changed from 1800s till now.

Many people are often misinformed or given bad first impressions of feminism. However, feminism is equal rights for all people of different race, sex, gender, and sexuality. Many of the people that give feminism a bad name, include a self-proclaimed feminist that is running for presidency, and meninists who are satirical equal rights activists. In reality, feminism is pro-gender equality and opportunities for all types of people.

The political victory of women has been less perceptible than the “great” social victories. Women today can be seen holding positions of great

Throughout history, women have struggled for equality in all parts of the world. European women fought for suffrage for an extremely long period of time before they were granted full voting rights. Each country approved women’s suffrage at different times, but it occurred in most European countries in the early 20th century. The first country to develop universal suffrage was Finland in the year 1906(“Women’s Suffrage in Europe”). One of the last countries to become open about women’s voting rights was Switzerland, who didn’t grant women suffrage until 1971(“Women’s Suffrage in Europe”). One of the main reasons why women desired the right to vote was because they wanted to be able to vote for new laws that would eliminate their social

No doubt, the 20th century laid great foundation for the fights for equal gender rights that led to women enrollment in different areas of life. It was a great entry in 21st century to have total human population on the board without segregation of gender, races and ethnicity at least in papers. Yet, there is a lot more to be done particularly when it comes to rights of women in active areas of life. In the 20th century, initially the women rights