Women 's Rights And Health Care

Since the 1920’s, women have been fighting for equal rights. Women’s groups spent decades working to pass laws that would ban gender discrimination. Finally, in 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress even though

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

Women’s rights and equalities have always been an issue. Women first began their fight for equality in 1776, when the Congress was working on the Declaration of Independence. During the late 1840s, women set up the first women’s rights convention, which was the starting point of the women’s rights movement. In 1861, men were getting called off to war, leaving their wives and kids at home to wait patiently and care for the house and children. Women did not take too well to that idea, and they began to take action. Women have always fought for their right to stand alongside men. The three major events for the fight to gain rights and equality for women were the “Remembering the Ladies” declaration, the Civil War, and the Women’s Rights Movement.

Since the beginnings of American society, the life of a woman has fluctuated wildly. Between the American Revolution and the Civil War women still never fully had the same rights as men (not even close). But, after the American Revolution, Republican Motherhood-an ideal that put women solely in the position as mothers with the task of teaching and guiding children to instill in them the virtues of a good citizen- became very popular among middle/high class white women. Lower class and minority women weren’t able to embrace Republican Womanhood because of their roles in society. African American women were mostly slaves and lower class women of all races couldn’t provide a domestic lifestyle for their families because of their financial situations.

Before the women’s rights movement, American women were given far fewer rights than men. They were unable to vote, stand on a jury, attend a college, and pursue a profession in medicine or law. Married women had even fewer rights as citizens. They were not allowed to own property nor keep their own wages. This lead to several wives and children unable to help themselves when the husband would poorly manage the money he made.

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.

The Women’s Right Movement changed the lives of the American Women for the better, due to gaining the right to vote, access to higher education, and the opportunity to enter the workforce. Before the reform movements of Women’s right, the American women were discriminated in society, home life, education, and the workforce. Women in the 1800s could not only vote, but they also were forbidden to speak in public. They were voiceless and had no self-confidence, they dependent men, since they had little to no rights.

Imagine living in a world where women have no power or voice or control over their own lives. A world where women are property to their husbands or fathers or white privileged men, and their sole purpose in life is to have children, children that she would not even have a say in how their raised. The issue regarding women’s rights has been a worldwide dilemma since the very beginning of human life. Males have had this negligent idea cemented into their brains that they are very superior to females. In the US throughout the 19th century there were very many distinct differences between the roles of men and women in society.

America is the land of opportunity. It is a place of rebirth, hope, and freedom. However, it was not always like that for women. Many times in history women were oppressed, belittled, and deprived of the opportunity to learn and work in their desired profession. Instead, their life was confined to the home and family. While this was a noble role, many females felt that they were being restricted and therefore desired more independence. In America, women started to break the mold in 1848 and continued to push for social, political, educational, and career freedom. By the 1920s, women had experienced significant “liberation”, as they were then allowed to vote, hold public office, gain a higher education, obtain new jobs, drastically change

Abortion has been one of the hottest topics concerning women’s health care and reproductive rights. Tune into any presidential debate and you’ll notice candidates spending as much time discussing the topic as immigration, foreign policy, climate change, and gun control. There are a lot of misconceptions about the pro-choice movement but it can be explained in very simple terms. Being pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion, it simply means accepting that women have the choice to choose what they do with their bodies, not the government or anyone else. I believe strongly in this issue and believe that we should look at our past and not go back to a time where women did not have the same rights as men over their bodies. We are trying to become equal, not return to an era of submission. No man or government should have the power to control a women’s body; every person has a right to his/her own body. Abortion should be kept an easy, accessible, safe, and legal option for all women regardless of beliefs. We should be taking strides forward toward equality, not steps back. In the mid-twentieth century, second wave feminists saw major struggles of women and sought to radically improve and change the security of women and reproductive rights. We have fought hard for many of the rights we have today, but everyday we are challenged by those who want to oppose and erase our efforts.

Throughout the course of history, the field of healthcare has always been in a state of flux; however, healthcare has also had one steady aspect and that is women have always been at a disadvantage when it comes to traversing the system. Women have and still do face many obstacles within the health care system. These obstacles include research androcentrism, medicalization, gender stereotyping, reproductive rights, differential treatment, and fertility issues, among others… These obstacles must be explored and analyzed in order to better help women navigate the healthcare system and to support women’s rights in the present and future.

Woman’s health issues must be considered in the health care reform because of preventative health care, mental health, and women need specific health care and benefits.

In 1776, the then First Lady of the United States was the first to raise her about women’s rights, telling her husband to “remember the ladies” in his drafting of new laws, yet it took more than 100 years for men like John Adams to actually do so. With the help of half a dozen determined, and in this case white upper-middle-class, women the first-wave feminism, which spans from the 19th century to the early 20th century, finally led to their goal after 72 years of protesting. The Nineteenth Amendment, which secured the rights for women to vote finally passed in 1920. This grand victory brought other reforms along, including reforms in the educational system,

Although many groups have face inequality women have, and are still facing gender inequalities in laws. Before 1920 women could not vote and had little to no rights in America, women were looked at as nothing more than wives and mothers. In 1920 the nineteenth amendment gave women the right to vote, though this was far from the end of struggles for women’s rights. Women could not serve on juries in many locations before 1975, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Taylor v. Louisiana (419 U.S. 522) that excluding women from juries was unconstitutional. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, married women could not own property, sign contracts, or make wills, although by the end of the century they could do all these things thanks in part to efforts of the women’s rights movement of that era. Yet, employment

The investment for women’s health will secure high social, health, and economic returns (Stenberg et al., 2014). As a result, there has been a stronger focus on women’s health since 1985 when the Report of the Public Health Service Task Force on Women’s Health Issues was published. Therefore, the published report recognized the urgency to focus on women’s health at the community and individual levels (Lee, 2015). In addition, the shift to focus on women’s health recognized that a woman’s health involves more than her reproduction health and that certain health conditions react differently in women than in men (Lee, 2015). Overall, the purpose of this paper is to explore global issues in women’s health care.