Women And Equal Rights In The United States

During the 1920s, women gained a lot more power than ever before. The Nineteenth Amendment was enacted and it gave all women the right to vote. Many of the women during this era known as the “Roaring Twenties” became flappers. These women typically had short hair, wore semi-short skirts, wore excessive amounts of makeup, drank, smoked and partied quite often with the boys of the era, known as sheiks. There were many other laws enacted during the 1920s, such as the Sheppard-Towner Act and the Equal Rights Amendment, but none of the acts passed seemed to help women in the workforce. A limitation that they faced was that although they did the same job as the men, they still were paid lower wages than the men.

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.

At this time period racism and discrimination was going on, women were fighting for equal rights. However African American women had to fight double because of racism.

The United States of America was built on the unfair labor of others. The United States used slaves to produce an abundant amount of cotton in the South. Many mill owners started using children to work in the factories. Later on, many mill owners employed young, unmarried women to work in the textile mills, straightening cotton threads as the cotton entered the water-powered looms. The United States has been developed on wrongful labor of others by racism being the effect of slavery, lack of education being the effect of child labor, and unfair woman rights being the effect of the labor of Lowell females.

There are many aspects of life that people take for granted in the United States today. A public school system, sewer systems, clean water, electricity, free speech, are perfect examples, and all of which most Americans do not think twice about having. These aspects have not appeared out of thin air in modern America. They have been molded, shaped, and created throughout time. One part of life that is taken for granted at times is women’s rights. Women throughout history have fought for the right to vote, for equal pay, and to be treated as men are. Over time, they have evolved to be included, represented, and accepted into today’s society. There were many contributing factors to help these women achieve their goals. History has extensive amounts

There has been a substantial amount of progress in women's rights since America was founded. Before women were only seen as housewives and nothing else. Now women can be anything they set their mind to. However, even though there are more opportunities they still suffer inequality.

This week’s reading discussed issues particularly affecting women. Chapter 7 talked about women not have equal rights and because of that it results in women being subject to violence, discrimination, unequal opportunity to education and health insurance. In 1980 the United States signed the law entitled, (CEDAW) elimination of all discrimination against women but they never ratified the law. At first this was a shocker to me because when I first read the law I thought it was just for equal rights for women but this law also includes things that are contrary to the United States laws.

In america the rights women have gained are good, on the other hand people still think there are still some things to overcome. In most places women have had the right to vote. Some say that women remain at a disadvantage in education as well and women continue to make up more than most of students who drop out before completing the fourth grade, as well as making up for half of the world is one billion adults. Each year the number of females entering into higher educational programs and universities increases greatly. Another great thing for women is that of own body rights. In many nations abortions are legal and women have a wide variety of different things , such as birth control. This right in many nations remains as a central continuing debate issue.

There are certain rights that are set up by the United States government to serve and protect the citizens of the United States of America. The Constitution was set up to all the people to be a free people, and laws were set up to establish ground rules of respect and equality. When domestic violence occurs, the rights of the victim are violated and the protection that is needed is not acknowledged. The amount of impact Domestic Violence has in Society has become more and more recognized over time. The main issue in collecting information to form statistics is difficult, as many victims of domestic violence choose not to report the incidents that occur within their domestic situation.( Frieze, I.H., Browne, A.)

The fight for women’s rights in America has been a long one, spanning many generations. It has been a little less than a century since women saw their first significant victory in the 19th Amendment, which acknowledged women’s the right to vote. Of course, women forged on, calling for more recognition and equality in the workplace, the classroom, and the church. Among them stood leading women like Mary Daly, who “trenchantly and thoroughly assailed the deification of maleness in the church” (West 113). However, these feminist leaders were predominantly white, middle-class women whose main issue was that they were women. In the mid-1900s, racism was still a normal part of American society, which was evident in the beginnings of the feminist

As you walk down the street today, what do you notice about the people around you? Maybe there’s a white male, an Asian female, and a Latin male. Other than visual cues, there is no indication that there are any differences between one person or another. Any one person, whether black, white, male, or female, can enter any establishment, get a job, buy a piece of land, or vote in an election. However, this has not always been the case. Most of these people at one point or another had limited rights in the United States. Specifically, in the 1800’s, women had limited rights, especially after marriage. Once a woman was wed, she was no longer able to take in her own wages, sign a contract, or own any property. What were the rights that women were lacking, and where do we stand on those issues now? Have we come as far as we think we have with women’s rights? We have a widespread misconceived notion that women have equal rights, but we still have a ways to go. On the surface, it seems that we are all equal finally. However, there are still issues that are still being argued after over 150 years of being in front of our government.

My grandmother has spent many years in the Middle East, working on the sick because she was a doctor. While she was there she had to escorted by her husband to go to work. Also, people were harsh towards for the way she dressed. In the Middle East such as Iraq and Afghanistan, the government has the ability to decide what the citizens get to know what's going in the world. Also, women do not have the same rights and they are not educated. In America, we get the privilege and the right to know what's going on in the world and women have equal rights as men. I am very glad I have the privilege to be equal as every else unlike many people in different countries around the world.

As a caucasian teenage citizen of the United States of America, I am part of a privileged race. I am able to observe discrimination and segregation to other races and members of my country, as most of it is not being done to me individually. However, knowing that LGBTQ people and people of color are being dehumanized, even though the year is now 2015 and same-sex marriage is legal in all fifty states, infuriates me on a very high level. Equal rights in the United States is important to me because I strongly believe that everyone should be treated equally and with respect, no matter your sexual-orientation or race.

Such discrimination goes against the 14th Amendment of our Constitution under the Equal Protection Clause, which states that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws". This law should protect everyone regardless of race or ethnicity. This very much explains why in every single state of the U.S, poverty rates are higher for the African Americans than Whites. According to research done by the Kaiser Family Foundation in all 50 states, the poverty rates are higher for African Americans than whites.

Equal rights is possibly the biggest issue in the United States. For the common good, people who are drafted are responsible to fight regardless if they want to or not. Sometimes a soldier goes to war for the common good but in return the people may be angry at the solder for doing what they had to do. People should fight for individual rights because everybody deserves to have a choice to go to war or not. One soldier once said “My Country asked me to go, I went. I did what was expected of me as an American(Memories of Vietnam).”