Voltaire was an advocate for women's rights, believing that women should have the same legal and social rights as men. He wrote about gender equality in several of his works, advocating for women's education and independence. He believed that women should have the same opportunities as men to develop their talents and contribute to society.
Right to own property, Right to vote, Equal pay
Now they have to work so a family has 2 incomes to survive
Everyone who is capable of loving the child, is able to provide for that child, will protect the child from abuse and neglect, and is willing to parent their children should have the right to have children.
So: no, not everyone... but most
Since the Taliban has been kicked out and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) has taken over, womens rights have definitly improved. The edvidence to prove this is that
Abigail Adams was an advocate of married women's property rights and more opportunities for women, particularly in the field of education. Women, she believed, should not submit to laws not made in their interest, nor should they be content with the simple role of being companions to their husbands. They should educate themselves and thus be recognized for their intellectual capabilities, so they could guide and influence the lives of their children and husbands. She is known for her March 1776 letter to John Adams and the Continental Congress, requesting that they, "...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.[1]
John declined Abigail's "extraordinary code of laws," but acknowledged to Abigail, "We have only the name of masters, and rather than give up this, which would completely subject us to the despotism of the petticoat, I hope General Washington and all our brave heroes would fight."
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Adams#Women.27s_rights
Abigail Adams was one of the very many founders of the group called the daughters of liberty.This group of women helped us win the american revolution by boycotting british goods.
Women have equal rights to men in all areas of society. It is illegal to discriminate based on gender in Canada. It's all in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Before World War 2, women had the right to vote in a few countries such as Australia and New Zealand. That was the only rights give at that time as they were minimally involved in the political process.
That feminist over there slapped a guy for being courteous and holding a door open for her, when 10 seconds earlier, she slapped a different man for not holding the door for her.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Lucretia Mott,Susan B. Anthony & Sojourner truth
The role of women has changed greatly in American society. Prior to World War II, women generally stayed in the home. During the war, women began working outside the home every day, doing the jobs left vacant by the men out fighting. Following the war, women refused to go back to being housewives. They enjoyed the independence of working. This eventually lead to the Women's Lib movement of the 1960s.
Married women were not allowed to teach in the 1800's, because married women usually get pregnant at some point in their marriage, and the schoolboards did not want to pay them for maternity leave, or have to find another teacher a such short notice. Also, i think mood swings might have been a part of it, but that's probably just a myth.
They saw that they both were disenfranchised at that time in history. The desire to be heard and heeded and treated equally was something they shared, and you know what they say about strength in numbers.
Interestingly, later (and by later I mean early 1900s, not today) women's rights advocates also shared a lot of members in common with prohibition, but that's another story.
pros - conflicts will likely be solved without war (or at least attempted to be solved without war) cons -may not be as intimidating? -probably very many sexist people will protest
Women were not allowed to vote. They usually could not get higher education. Often, they could not get jobs, and when they did, they got paid less than men for the same work. They could not own property, in many countries, including England, for a while. In some places, if they had money and got married, the money became the property of their husbands. They women's right movement started because they were sick of the unfairness.
There is a link below.
The admission of Blackwell was unanimous because the students vote yes and because the professors thought that a majority of students will be against that a girl will come to a Medical School.
NAWSA
National American Women Suffrage Association
Here are some others:
NAOWS
NWP
NWSA
NOW
A notable woman named Elizabeth Cady Stanton presented the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848. Other women: Susan B. Anthony, the Grimke sisters, Lucy Stone. Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Yes. Today the world uses the same Women rights that Hitler has created.
Germany had the most equal genders when Hitler was in power.
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also made rights for Workers, Animals, and the environment.
The passage of the Married Women's Property Act resulted in improvement of women's rights in New York.