Over the years women have fought long and hard to be able to obtain and maintain legal rights and privileges that the male gender is born into. Females were molded and primed to play the part as an obedient wife and mother with instruction that your thoughts and opinions are kept to yourself. The perseverance of brave women helped today’s generation of women such as myself have the same equal rights as that of men. With all things you must have a burning passion in the pit of your belly to want to advance and defeat the injustice of this world. In order to put laws into effect there must be a group of people who all agree that new laws should be implemented because of majority vote.
Women did not have natural born rights, such as the right to vote, speak in public, access to equal education, and so forth, did not stop them to fight for their rights. Women’s lives soon
The National Organization of Women is devoted to women getting equal rights. As stated in the excerpt, “women can achieve such equality only by accepting to the full the challenges and responsibilities they share with all other people in our society, as part of the decision-making mainstream of America political, economic and social life” (113). Changes that take place in our everyday lives make it possible and necessary to give women the equality that they deserve. Women should not have to
Founding Mothers gave me information relating directly to my project. It was useful, very helpful, and my main resource. Westward Movement Secondary Sources: Lunardini, Christine.What Every American Should Know About Women's History.Holbrook, Massachusetts. Christine Lunardin Inc. 1994 This book showed me all the important events that happened in women history. It helped because it gave me the impression that women 's history was more than just a fight to vote.
Annotated Bibliography "Famous Women's Rights Activists." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, 02 Nov. 2011. Web. 08 Sept. 2013.This article discusses famous people who have actively gotten involved in women's rights and shows the many things they have done to help.
In other words, Document 1 is stressing that women should know their own language as to that they people of their nation. Moreover, women’s right needs to be acknowledged and should not be taken so lightly. The women are still people, human as many would say. Another example, in Document 2, it stresses that the people of the estates should not be divided into group, but to be taken as a whole. In other words, people should not be simply segregated because of class distinctions.
In “Momma”, Chrystal Meeker tells us about her mother. The speaker shows us that her mother is very strong when it comes to her children. People are always saying that they would do anything for love, but the love for a child is totally different. The tie that a mother has to her child means more than anything. It means that she would give up anything in the world for her child’s safety or well being.
I thought this to mean that Gilman was feminizing them while the women held the power to release them. Also when they were in confinement how they were allowed to exercise and Gilman says the older women would match or beat them at the exercises. Gilman gets this point across pretty clear that she thinks women are equal, if not better than males. In this utopian place, Gilman lays out a place and society that she believes is an ideal place to live. She creates a social structure that because it is all women believes that there is never any trouble and everyone gets along with one another.
Like her I had to somewhat grow up without a father figure and become the “mom” of the household. She is definitely a character I can relate to. I find Katniss very unselfish because when the draw to chose the players for the Games came around, she took her sisters place to participate. I consider myself unselfish because I would go out of my way to
The Women's Rights movement, also known as "Women's Libbers," told women not to waste their time taking care of their homes and families, and they were too smart for that. They proclaimed that women had a "choice" not to be housewives now thanks to them. They said women could be anything they wanted to be, and they would find fulfillment in jobs outside of the home. Many women seemed to want to have jobs outside of the home, leaving their children, even very young babies, in day care centers. Older children were also in day care or on their own.