Women's Rights In The 1960s

In the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s, women were not given the rights they have today and were being mistreated, but because of a few brave women who gave up their lives to fight for what they knew was right, this all changed. Many of these women were educated and brave, but were still denied their rights. Women have suffered through this long battle to get what they knew they deserved and took time out of their lives to fight for what they believed in, which was to have a voice. Women wanted to get the same respect that men were given. The women’s suffrage movement was not only in the United States, but it was all over the world. It took the women’s suffrage movement many years to work and come through, but women were finally able to vote and have the same rights as men. Through their work in the suffrage movement, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony and many more changed the role of women in society.

During the 1960s women were confined to one lifestyle, they were not acceptable in the public eye and were limited in their family lifestyle as well as the workplace. Women were expected to marry the traditional young marriage and then devote their time to raise the family and take care of their husband. Due to restriction women became activist and voiced their opinion to become equal in the workplace.

Over a hundred years ago, one event created chaos among gender roles and here are some of the initial factors of how rights for women started as a predicament which later began to evolve into a much larger problem that involved many people around the nations. Over the course of history, many issues had change the world to what it has become today. Many problems led to social, economic, and other changes. One small event is able to cause more obstacles, which eventually leads to larger complications. Even though society had tried to resolve these issues, they still encountered many hardships that were disruptive to their own perspectives as also for other people within the community. Thus, this was an important issue because it had changed

The Women's Rights Movement was a significant crusade for women that began in the late nineteenth century and flourished throughout Europe and the United States for the rest of the twentieth century. Advocates for women's rights initiated this movement as they yearned for equality and equal participation and representation in society. Throughout all of history, the jobs of women ranged from housewives to factory workers, yet oppression by society, particularly men, accompanied them in their everyday lives. Not until the end of the nineteenth century did women begin to voice their frustrations about the inequalities among men and women, and these new proclamations would be the basis for a society with opportunities starting to open for

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.

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 years, the groups for women have grown more widespread. Women still march for equal rights, equal pay, ect. Women were not treated equally to man, especially in the late 1800’s. “Women were still being denied public roles, rights, and responsibilities in the late 1800’s.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 1) Women could not have a public role such as, business man, mechanic, store owner, factory worker ect. The rights and responsibilities of women were also being denied. No one wanted women to be or even thought of as an equal to man. “Women’s attempts to work within the abolitionist movement of the 1830’s illustrated that they were not yet considered political equals of men.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 1) “In 1840, at the world Anti-Slavery Convention in London, women were sent to galleries and prohibited from participating.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 1) Women were not allowed to participate in any kind of public affiliation they were always sent off and prohibited from participating. “The early movement continued to address a variety of issues concerning women’s lives, including supporting the temperance movement in the late 1800’s.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 1) “In 1875, the NWSA suffered a setback when the Supreme Court ruled that suffrage was not a privilege granted by the Fourteenth Amendment, which guaranteed the rights of free man.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 2) “Finally, after having been introduced every year to Congress beginning in 1878, the Nineteenth Amendment, the Woman Suffrage Amendment, was ratified on August 26, 1920.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 2) Finally, in 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. Women could start being seen a little more as an equal, and not so much as a

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 weren’t allowed to vote and were usually mandatory to surrender control of their property to their husband upon marriage. Their educational and professional opportunities were severely limited. Some men believed that a woman's place was in the home, raising children and tending to domestic affairs. First real efforts to achieve equal opportunity for women occurred in the 1800s. Throughout the early part of that century, coeducational studies at the university level were offered for the first time. State laws were passed which allowed women to retain their property after marriage.

The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all the same rights as men, including the right to vote. It was not until 1848 that the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level with a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, organized by abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. But on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

The Government in the 1960’s passed The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The National Organization for Women was created in 1966 there main goal was for women to have the same equal rights as men. The 1970’s was the decade where the civil rights and women’s right were implemented by the government. By outlawing racial and gender discrimination the government created federal agencies to inforce these laws. When in 1975 the Vietnam War ended, the nation’s liberal leaders focused on human rights and individual freedoms. Many new groups were created to be the voice for minorities and women. They would lobby and stage marches to protest failure by the government to enforce the laws of the land. This was the decade when

In the 19th century women began fighting for more rights. For example, in 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton made a speech about better education for women at Seneca Falls. In this speech she states, “The right is ours. The question now is: how shall we get possession of what rightfully belongs to us?”

The fight for women’s rights began in the decades before the Civil War. In the 1820s and 1830s, all white men were given the right to vote no matter how wealthy they were or how much land they had in their possession. Customs and laws placed men as superior in the household and

During the 1900’s, women had a tough time becoming their own unique beings. They had little rights, almost non-existent to be honest, and no voice. Consequentially, women were forced into becoming good housewives and value the growth and developmental impacts they had on their children. Along the way, women had the voice to say enough is enough. Women wanted change and they wanted it now. This is what sparked Women’s rights movements.

Throughout the decades of 1930s through the 1960s, there were many changes happening to women. Women today are fighting for abortion, equal wages, jobs in congress, and many more similar rights. The progressive era was when the fight for these rights began. It started with a group of men and women who collaborated in Seneca Falls, New York to fight for women’s rights movement. During this time, no other public meeting had occurred, but the movement continued to grow. Susan B. Anthony, strong and outspoken advocate of women's rights, pushed for the inclusion of women’s and African-American male vote in the 14th amendment. This was the start of a large change through women’s history.