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wOMANS RIGHTS

            During the past century the roles and lives of women has changed dramatically. Women have gone from being nothing and into an equal part or society. The suffrage movement played an important role in this change.
             During the 1800's and 1900's newspapers played an important role in Americans lives. They were used to find out information on what's going on in the world. There are many articles and books that related to the woman's fight for equality. During world war one many woman took over the men's jobs in factories to keep there family alive and to clothe and feed their kids. Woman liked the feeling of working for what they wanted and when the war was over woman didn't want o give up their jobs back to the men returning from the war. That's when woman finally started to realizes that it is on fair for the men to be the only ones working in this world. In the Wheeler and Becker book there are five articles that will catch your eye. These five articles all come from different sources and all show how woman's right for equality was a long and hard struggle and how other felt about woman working in a mans world. In article two they state how woman took over jobs in real estate, copywriters, they filled executive offices. They where not going to give up their jobs. It also states "they had a self-sustaining life of their own with a cigarette after every meal and a lover in the evening to wander about with and lend color to life." This article shows how the lives of woman changed from being in the house all the time to going out and even smoking cigarettes. Many people didn't believe it was right for a woman to leave her home and family to get a job it created alloy of controversy. As shown in article five they state that when a woman leaves their home "she is regarded as a menace to the race and held accountable for the falling birth rate." Woman would work up 54 hours a week from Monday to Saturday and Sunday they would spend all day cleaning their house and bath their children and get everything ready for the week to come.


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1. Woman Suffrage

Woman Suffrage Woman Suffrage began in the Northeastern part of the United states. ... Besides wanting to have equal rights, the women also wanted change in social, moral, legal, educational, and economical status. ... They were worried about how women would vote and how they would handle having the same rights as the men. ... Another big issue in woman suffrage was the rights of black women. ... The fourteenth amendment basically cut out all of the old writings on the rights being just for the men. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

2. Womans Suffrage

The NAWSA was formed in 1890 with the union of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The NAWSA separated the traditional association of woman's rights with the rights of blacks in order to gain support in the South without much success. ... In 1912 the progressive movement gave the NAWSA new life when labor, trade unions, socialists, and working woman started to back the woman's suffrage movement. ... Alice Paul started the National Woman's Party (NWP), after returning from working on woman's suffrage in Britain. ...

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3. Understanding Human and Women's Rights

The ability to "be free" is all branched down to the protection of human rights, as well as women's rights. ... Vance proclaimed three essential parts of human rights. ... When she was thirteen years old, a woman named Mahabouba Muhammad was approached by a neighbor who said he could "find her better work". ... This is only a small list of some common violations of women's rights. ... A woman named Harper McConnell has traveled to war-torn Congo to essentially "give back" to people who desperately need the assistance (Kristof & WuDunn p. 88). ...

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4. The Taking of Human Rights

An English woman, referred to as Stacy, was forced by her boyfriend into prostitution. ... Stacy "genuinely felt trapped," [With] no value other than to make money for somebody else", working as his slave (London Woman Shares 1). ... In addition to the infringement of women's human rights, the Jewish people have also had their rights neglected. ... In order to mollify the severity of her "crime", she must marry the attacker who she had a daughter by ("Afghan woman's choice" 1). ... A 26-year-old Afghan woman named Mallali Nurzi found herself so desperate...

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5. Rights

Women have equal rights in today's society? ... Woman do discriminated against woman thinking the color of skin, or background has a right to impact their emotions and rights to being equal. ... Like every race and every animal in a tribe woman have formed together to make race/origin not an issue when fighting for over all rights to one gender. ... Today we call this large-scale program the Woman's Party leading to conventions commonly known to all true hard American women, the Women's Rights Convention. The Equal Rights Amendment of the Woman's Party embodies the go...

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6. Eleanor Roosevelt A woman Before Her Time

Eleanor Roosevelt was a strong independent and outspoken woman, who used her status and influence toward the rights of all human beings. A woman who through sheer determination to have her way, made major changes for women, the poverty stricken and African-Americans rights as citizens of the United States of America. ... She was also a woman and could only influence and proceed in her endeavors as far as the male heads of state and her husband President Franklin D. ... Her push for Women's rights did however, have its limits, as she stated in a press conference, concerning the proposed E...

  • Word Count: 598
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7. Women's Rights in the 19th and 20th Century

Lucretia Coffin Mott was also a leading women's rights pioneer. ... She was later named president of the American Equal Rights Association 1866. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an extraordinary woman's rights leader. ... Stanton also held the position as president of the National Woman Suffrage Association for numerous years. ... In the 1850s, Truth spoke at several women's rights meetings, encouraging brotherly love. ...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

8. The US Constitution - Protecting Our Rights

Therefore they put in place constitutional safeguards including separation of powers, the bill of rights and checks and balances, to help the "high priority placed on rights." ... The separation of powers and the Bill of Rights set up in the US Constitution have allowed the protection of rights. ... Wade 1973 case where the court's judgement was based on the decision that a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy came under the freedom of personal choice in family matters as protected by the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. However in many citizens views the Bill of rights ha...

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9. Seneca Falls Leads to Women's Rights

The birth of women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention. ... A woman was never seen preaching or speaking in public. ... She spoke the words "let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man." ... The first woman to be discussed will be Mucretia Mott. ... They sat at a table with Martha Wright, Jane Hunt and Mary Ann McClintock and called for a "Woman's Rights Convention" to meet the following week in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls. ...

  • Word Count: 2491
  • Approx Pages: 10
  • Grade Level: High School

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