Eth 125 Women's Rights Movement

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Diversity Organizations Phylicia Calloway ETH/125 9/7/13 The women rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage. Although the vote was secured for women by the nineteenth amendment to the U.S constitution in 1920, most of the gains women have made in achieving legal equality and ending gender discrimination have come since the 1960’s. (Farlex). Women could not vote, women could not work outside of the home and if they did they were treated with little to no respect. Women were supposed to remain behind men and were also expected to be supportive without voicing their own opinion. After years of being kept down, in 1966 the NOW (National Organization for Women) was established. The national organization for women has been a major source of protection for women on every subject important to women from workplace equality to reproductive rights (Rainbo.org). The status of women in the U.S today is far more important than what it used to be. Women now can now live their life just as a…show more content…
In most other states, the status of adoption for gay people is either unknown or ambiguous to the right of straight people. Many states have protections for LGBT people against discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation and in some places gender identity as well. Many states also have enacted hate crime laws on the basis or sexual orientation or gender identity. The younger generation is one that is more accepting and open to gay rights and politicians are still debating gay rights. Social issues are an extremely hot debate point in this country both politically and simply between people Some people approve of gays and gay rights while others do not, citing personal, moral, religious or political reasons for their

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