Women 's Rights On The Grounds Of Political, Social, And Economic Equality

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.

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.

Women’s rights in America in late 1800’s women’s right to vote women in medicine and the equal rights for women are the 3 main points that were big in the 1800’s.

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.

Women have played a defining role in contributing to shaping Canada, as well as the classic Charter of Rights and Freedoms, mainly to promote gender equality which has become the core values in Canada today. Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a bill of rights fixed in the Constitution of Canada, and is the first part of the Constitution Act. Women’s rights and freedoms are protected under Section 15 (1985) which guarantees equality rights and Section 28 (1985) which guarantees that all the rights enclosed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms apply to both genders; male or female equally. (Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 1982). Sexism has been around for a long time despite these strong regulations, and that too mainly

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.)

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.

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.

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

I remember in the 10th grade when my English teacher had us do a class poll. He told us to raise your hand if you believed that woman's in today's world are treated fairly. I was the only student to not raise her hand. Because I knew that woman in America might have a lot of rights but in the rest of the world women are treated as Second class citizens. The 19th amendment states “guarantees all American women the right to vote”. Most countries allow women to vote but I think it's sad that it took so long for many of these countries to give women a right that they deserve. Vatican City the home of the pope is the only place a women can not vote. This brings up the fact that religion is the main reason why women do not have many of the rights

Throughout history women’s rights have been a conflict in society because of the many unfair advantages given to men and not women. Social injustice is shown through women’s rights by their voting rights, employment, and healthcare. Due to these dilemmas women all over the world have gathered together to create a group enforcing women’s rights. For example, in the book, The American Women’s Movement it talks about the group known as “The National Organization for Women (NOW)” (MacLean 71). It became one of the largest, most membered feminist organization in the country. The organization branched out to different sized region cities.

Women are not a minority anymore and yet they earn less than men. In the United States, a woman earns 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. The situation gets worse by the race of the woman, for example, an African-American woman gets 64 cents and a Hispanic one 54 cents for every dollar a white man does. Although salary equality for women is a subject that is a hot topic for years, in general females tempt to find a male partner who earns more money than them. To women is more important to find a partner who earns more money than them, as men like it to be the same way. If there were no salary gap between genders, half of the percentage of women would be unable to find the significant other. In order for a woman to increase their economic

Women had no rights in the 1800 hundreds. The hierarchy in the United States of America back then was rich white men, poor white men, white women, black men and black women. During those time women were uneducated and as a result had to take care of the house chores such as cleaning, cooking, going grocery shopping and lots more. Today women has the opportunity to become whomever they aspire to be, they are liberated and educated. As a result they are able to fill positions such as doctors, lawyers, engineers, and so much more.

People were not only discriminated due to their race but some of their gender, which affected their political rights in a multitude of ways. To illustrate, one of the Colonies most unspoken laws, dating from Ancient Greece to 1920, is that women have no right to vote and that only the gentry could contribute in political matters according to the Governor. Additionally, a law from Great Britain in stated that if a landowning woman is to marry, she must sign a document stating she is giving her property to the husband. However, in the case of Anne Cart, a wealthy indigo farmer who was engaged, she testified to a jury that the land was worth more under her ownership and she won the right to own it. Another example is that 97% of court cases involving dark magic is directed towards women accused of witchcraft and found that 78% of the women are convicted and hung. This shows that in the 16th century, people thought women were generally inferior to men and treated them as such politically.