Womens Rights :: Women Empowerment

Today women and men right are equal in the United States of America. Not long ago, there was a great leaving in the treatment of men and women. Women provided care for the children and usually remained at home. Their reproduction was limited to learning domestic skills. There were few opportunities for women to obtain an pedagogy because only a few colleges or universities would accept a female. Women had no access to positions of power. They were not al low-toneded to enter professions such as medicine or law. They thought they were totally dependent on men.For the Industrial Revolution women were a really important role. This was the beginning of their independence, although factory conditions were very bad and their pay, were disappoint than mens, meant that lower-class women could become wage earners in factories. At the same age middle and upper-class women were expected to stay at home as idle, decorative symbols of their husbands economic success. Such conditions enc ourage the feminist movement. With industrialization happening rapidly in Great Britain and U.S feminism was more(prenominal) successful. In 1848 more than 100 persons held the first womens rights convention, at Seneca Falls, New York. Led by the sensation Lucretia Mott and the feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, they demanded equal rights, including the vote and an end to the double standard. The number of working(a) women increased virtually after the two world wars, merely had low paid, female- dominated occupations, such as school teachers and clerical work. Women were not stock-still allowed to vote until August 1920.In the 1960s however, changing demographic, economic and social patterns encouraged a resurgence of feminism. As working women encountered discrimination in many another(prenominal) forms. The womens movement also questioned social institutions and moral values, basing many of its arguments on scientific studies suggesting that most supposed differences between men and women result not from biology, but from culture.In the early 70s active feminists organized womens rights groups, ranging from the moderate National governing for Women, founded in 1966 and claiming about 250,000 members to smaller, more radical groups. Private and governmental efforts cover in November 1977, when the largest convention of women ever held in the U.