Women Have Suffered Countless Obstacles In Which To Reach

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 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.

The American women’s rights movement started in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention when 100 people, 32 male and 68 female signed the Declaration of Sentiments. The inequality was no longer acceptable. During the civil war, women began to fill the work, mainly

Over the history of time women were not allowed to have prominent roles and rights in society. Through history and time women have fought for the right to vote, to work for equal pay, the women’s suffrage, gaining property rights, and much more. The first women’s right movement in the United States of America, which started in the 1830s, arose from the campaign too end slavery. Many things such as evangelical Christianity, the abolitionist critique to slavery, and debates about the place of women in the abolitionist movement played valuable roles in the development of the antebellum women’s right movement. These efforts and large steps that women took to destroy and tear down the walls that limited them from having a voice still resonates today.

Ninety-five years ago the nineteenth amendment was passed giving women in America the right to vote (America’s Historical Documents), this was a pivotal step for women rights. Since then women’s rights have increasingly advanced throughout America: in politics and in the workforce. In fact “women today make up almost half of all worker in the United States” (The State of Women in America). Sadly though, women are paid less than males in the workforce. "Women in the United States are paid only 77 cents for every dollar a man makes" (The State of Women in America). One question that derives from this topic is: why are women still not getting paid as much as men? Women should get paid as equally as men do. A fair argument to make against the topic is the difference in the types of work a woman and a man does (Debate). For example in construction men are tasked with most of the heavy lifting as opposed to a women that do not have as much

Women’s rights did not officially begin to be a problem until 1848. Many believe that it’s been a problem from at most the 1600’s. Colonial women didn’t give a thought about their rights, but there were some female political leaders. Margaret Brent, a woman who had been given power-of-attorney from Lord Baltimore. Judith Sargent Stevens Murray, the writer of the United States’ first feminist theory. “Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old is more sage than that of a female the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! How is the one exalted and the other depressed…. The one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited.”

     The Women’s rights reform began in 1840, at a London convention concerning slavery, when two abolitionists were turned away because they were women. From that point on Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton felt that they need to

Since the early 1800’s women began to fight for their rights. They began to get tired of their everyday life and decided to change things up. They began with wanting to be seen as equals with the men. They wanted to work and make their own money. But most of all they wanted to vote.

Women’s rights were first addressed at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 in which the Declaration of Sentiments formulated. The document laid out various rights, for example: a woman’s voting right. At that time nothing changed for women and the declaration was met with criticism from men. This was the foundation of Women’s Movement, but it proved to be a long road. (Kelly, "Womens Suffrage and the Seneca Falls Convention")

Women's rights didn't just appear one day, they had to fight for what they thought was right. The first step of it all was the 19th amendment, this amendment allowed women to vote at the age of 18. After the 19th amendment women started to gain more freedom all because of

Men get paid more than females do. Men get promotions more than females do. In the work place women get sexual harassed by their employee. Women who had less education also received less pay. Females have a harder time on trying a CEO position and are challenged when they do earn the position by the male workers. If a male who has graduated college work he will make over 91,000 dollars but if a women who has graduated college works in the same position she would make around 60,000 dollars. So, we don't get paid the same amount even if we do work just as hard as the men

The first women’s rights convention was held in 1848 in New York. Around 300 people arrived which was a pretty huge accomplishment. Around 100 people signed the Declaration of Sentiments while they were there, which supported equality and access to all rights and privileges for women. They used “all men and women are created equal” from The Constitution to support this declaration. This one convention was a kick start to many conventions after that. Suffragists such as Susan B Anthony signed a petition to congress for the right to vote. Women were working extremely hard to fight for their rights. People began to take notice. Stanton, who held the first real convention, wrote, “It will start women thinking, and men too; and when men and women think about a new question, the first step in progress is

This can be seen in the approximately two-hundred year difference between when men and women began voting. In modern times, it seems that women would be seen more as equals, but that is not the case. The gender pay gap, the difference in the amount of money a man and a woman in the same position are paid, has not changed sufficiently in over a decade (“The”). If growth continues at the rate it has been going it will take forty-four years before men and women are presented with equal pay. This is, of course, assuming that men’s salaries don’t rise as well. This also doesn't apply to all careers. In job positions generally taken by men, such as construction workers, the pay gap has not changed in nearly forty years. Poverty among working women could be cut in half if pay were equal in all careers (“Pay”). President Obama is currently working on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which renews the Equal Pay Act of 1963. This said that if two workers are doing equal amounts and quality of work they must be paid the same. Though, whether or not they are equal is decided upon by the employer which is why President Obama is trying to get the Paycheck Fairness Act passed (“Did”). Perhaps it is complicated to try and change the pattern of a country’s entire history, but some employers are searching for ways that they are able to lower their female applicants and employees'

One of the reasons income inequality continues to prevail in today’s society is because lawmakers disagree on the issue at hand. The New York Times (n.d)) notes that Republicans blocked a bill on equal pay presented by Democrats that was aimed at closing the pay gap between men and women. Republican lawmakers impede that bill because they believed that given existing anti-discrimination laws, the legislation was redundant and is a transparent attempt by the Democrats to distract from President Obama’s much –criticized health care law. Another reason the income equality persist is due the difference in pay between genders within the same occupations. However, some lawmakers who turn down the equal pay bill believed that the disparity remains because of difference in occupations held among male and female. An example of an occupational difference is a female social worker that makes less than a male engineer (New York Times, n.d). Finally, I believe these income disparities persist because this civilization refuse to dismantle the past sexism views of women’s role as the weaker, idle and subservient domesticator. All in all, until society as a whole embrace women’s ingenuity, strength, and eagerness to be a working productive member of society the pay gap between men and women will continue to prevail for generations to

The beginning of the women 's suffrage movement in United States started in 1848. It gave women the right to vote. This movement when Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called for a women 's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. At the women 's right convention in Seneca Falls, New York women demanded to have the equal right as men (education, property, voting, and etc). On August 18, 1920, after the long 72 year movement for women 's rights 19th amendment was ratified.