Women 's Rights Of The United States

Although the issue of women’s rights has attracted international recognition and support, women still face many inequalities and barriers. Gender-based violence and economic discrimination are problems in many parts of the world.

Throughout time women and their rights have varied among where they are living and the people that surround them. Some of the major changes with women’s rights is giving them the right to vote, reproductive rights, and the right to work for equal pay. Another thing that varies throughout time is women’s roles. For example 100 years ago the only jobs that women could have was to either be a housewife, nurse, or a teacher. Until about 1910, women didn’t really fight for their rights and what they could do. In 1910, women started to voice their opinions in society and fought for the right to vote. Though things have changed greatly today, there are still women in the world that believe in the “traditional way” and prefer to still wait on

With the advancement of suffrage to equal pay, over the last century, women’s rights have progressed immensely. Through historic marches and demonstrations across the United States, women protested for their equal place in politics and social progress. Despite the fear-mongering components used in achieving these rights, women’s rights are still thoroughly debated within society today. Over the last century, incredible and unreachable goals have been fulfilled for women, such as the right to vote and a sense of equal state in the “Free World,” and can only improve in the years to come.

Over the course of history, women have fought and struggled to gain independence and rights for themselves. Starting all the way back at the beginning of time it has seemed to be that men have always been more superior than women. This co-existing issue has made women bundle down to the bottom of the “social ladder” which refrained them from freedom. Beginning back in the early 1800’s before laws and amendments were made women had close to no rights or freedoms. As the 1800’s went on several movements and marches started to happen as change did as well.

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

The roles of women in society have changed a lot since the 1800’s. While in the 1800’s women were viewed as housewives, now it is more common to see something such as single working mothers or a household where the wife is the primary “bread winner”. Today’s women have been provided with the opportunity to get educated, started joining the workforce, and even gained the right to vote. Gaining these rights was not an easy task and it took a lot of hard work and dedication to get them. Even though women have been given these opportunities, women’s rights is still a big and controversial topic in today’s society.

Since the beginning of time, women have rarely been seen as equal alongside men. They were always expected to focus on housework and were never given the opportunity to own property, touch money, or vote. It wasn’t until the late 1800s when women decided to make a drastic change. Women’s rights activists, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, organized the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls. At this convention,

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.

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.

It wasn’t until the early 1960’s when second wave feminism got its start. It focused primarily on mass social change and fought some of the oppression women were and still are facing today. It brought freedom for women in regards to their reproductive rights and sexuality amongst other things. Prior to this cultural shift, the women’s role in society was set. The image of the nuclear household dominated the time, and women were not only expected but in a way forced to become housewives and child bearers. The female Beats came in like a storm, being more interested in sex, drugs, and drinking. Because of sexism, and its undeniable grasp on American society, the male Beats were seen as outcasts, but the female beats suffered even more. The Beats, both males and females, were rebels for themselves. I believe that when they were writing at that time it was more for their own freedom and individual experience then other fellow Americans. Of course, that ended up not being the case, and today, over 60 years later American youth still read their works and feel powerful, inspired, and enlightened. I could write a massive essay of the importance of the female Beat writers as a whole, but today I find it important to focus on one who is still writing, still performing, and still inspiring today; Anne Waldman.

The family has traditionally been the basic unit of Chinese society where women have long been charged with upholding society 's values in their roles as wives and mothers. Especially in the Qing Dynasty, women were required to balance society 's ideals with the reality of raising a family and maintaining a household. Throughout the imperial period and into the beginning of the twentieth century, the relationship among family members was prescribed by Confucian teachings. The revered philosopher sought order in the ancient ties within a family and codified the position of the male patriarch as the sole authority for the family unit. Confucian values and ideals influenced the declining status of women by popularizing practices such as foot binding, their subservient roles to their families, and widow chastity, which limited Chinese women’s rights.

In today’s society there is a lot of talk about women being weak, but truth is we are not. Women have so much power and control that we use in many ways. We all know that society has always portrayed women as emotional creatures. Our emotions are stepping stones to help us do what is right whether standing up for ourselves and countries, building and supporting our families and even getting what is best for us.

In 2008, post the major changes in law in Nepal, which mandated that at least 33% of electoral Candidates overall were to be women, the country became the first in Asia to pass the 30% mark for women parliamentarians. Women won 197 (32.8%) of 601 seats. But it had taken a great deal of work, activism, training and lobbying.UNIFEM, in partnership with the National Commission for Women and local NGOs, boosted efforts that contributed to this historic representation of women. With support from the German government, Nepal‟s Making Politics Work with Women program supported capacity building of female and male members of the Constituent Assembly, and continuous advocacy with various subcommittees for the inclusion of gender and women‟s rights concerns within the draft Constitution. Partnerships with the UN Democracy Fund program focused on capacity-building of women candidates for office, and elected leaders, and for the training of media on gender issues, and civic education to promote women‟s participation in constitutional reform. The strategy advocated for quotas for women at all levels of government. A consensus was built with women‟s groups, political parties, civil society, and government ministries on a new draft Constitution incorporating gender equality considerations. The program publicized women‟s contribution to political and peace processes through advocacy tools, including a documentary on Women’s Role on Peace and Politics and radio jingles. Informational,

Women in Jesus’s time were treated very poorly and were limited to many things they could do. Women always either had to be with their father or husband and were basically treated as slaves. Also, women were inferior to men during this time period and women didn 't even have the right to testify in courts. A wife could never divorce her husband. However, a husband could divorce their wife for any reason, and he would not have to pay any money to take care of her. The father or husband would have to be a male escort in order for women to walk around in public places. Women weren 't allowed to speak unless they were spoken too and had very little rights or say in anything at the time. Women were treated basicly like slaves and not how a person should be ever be treated.

Women 's rights in Bangladesh have been an issue for decades. Women are deprived of their basic rights in almost all spheres of life only on the basis of that they are women. The image of discrimination is seen regardless of their social, economic and religious status. Bangladesh has generally been quite successful in formulating legal measures to combat social ills against women, for example in areas such as domestic violence, violence against women and children in general, dowry, etc. through enacting different laws Women and Children Repression Act 2000, Anti-Dowry Prohibition Act 1980, Cruelty of Women Law 1983. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of family laws. This is one of the areas of law where Bangladesh is