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Women's Rights

Women's Rights refers to the long fight to secure equal societal privilege for women to that given naturally to men. While the first thought quickly goes to suffrage, there are numerous other rights that women have been fighting for, such as: the right to serve in the armed forces, rights to be protected from rape and jail perpetrators, the right to open/run businesses and have careers, the right to an education, and innumerable other rights that many men take for granted.

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Who was the person who wanted womens rights?

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Alice Paul.

She and other women held signs outside of the White House asking for women's rights. Many women were arrested and charged. But they kept on fighting. Finally, to break the spirit of the suffrage, the police arrested Alice. She survived on bread and water. She was very weak (so weak she couldn't walk) so she was sent to the prison hospital. Where she refused to eat as an attempt to fight for women's rights. They ended up having to feed her through a tube that led from her throat to her stomach.

Who were the women who fought for women's rights?

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Susan B. Anthony

Lucy Stone

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Alice Paul

Lucy Burns

Margaret Sanger

See link for a list of 75 women who made up the women's suffrage movement.

What are kayapo womens jobs?

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They use the slash and burn technique to clear the jungle for their shifting cultivation method of farming.

The men perform rituals that require the wearing of monkey masks.

What is the percentage of doctors that are women?

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In the United States, about 36% of physicians are women. The percentage of women in the medical field has been increasing in recent years, with more women entering and graduating from medical schools.

How did the second great awakening affect the women's rights movement?

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most likely to stay home and take care of their family, because the men are the ones who did all the work. They believed that the world was to dangerous for the women so that is why they stayed home to take care of the kids, it is also because women are the ones who are a better role model for the children rather than the fathers.

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Why would abolitionists become outspoken advocates for women's rights?

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becoz abolition movement was related to the womens like abolition of sati , child marriage..that helped women to grow up and come across society and civil rights was related to mostly general people which included womens and other society people...these both helped women becoz womens were not active to the society so this helped women to face the society and to raise their voice

What does shakespeare think of womens rights?

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This is a complicated question, because women fulfilled many roles. For example, for most of Shakespeare's life, a woman was the most powerful person in the country, a person whom everyone in the country felt had a God-given right to boss them all around. And she did, and they loved her for it. Of course, only one woman in the country could be the queen. Two significant factors which underlay the social and economic position of most women was that women were generally given the task of raising young children and that the job of keeping a household running was very complicated and difficult. It was natural and convenient that these two tasks should go together, and so the responsibility for looking after children and looking after a house went together. Wealthy women could afford to hire servants to look after their children and houses and so had the free time to involve themselves in politics and the arts, which they did. But that was not a lot of women. Most of them went for the child-rearing and house-maintaining combination which required a father for the children and an outside source of income to pay the house expenses, which was the same person as the father. In other words, a satisfactory husband was an necessary part of this economic arrangement, and so a lot of attention was paid to finding young women a suitable mate. It is only fair to say that men also looked forward to the pleasures of a family and the comforts of a well-run home. However in some cases, like Shakespeare's, their obligation to provide the outside income actually prevented them from enjoying the home they were supporting. But I digress. Most women looked forward to a satisfactory marital relationship to complete their economic needs. But this was not always possible. Sometimes their spouses died, leaving them as widows. And the records show that many widows took over the businesses of their late husbands and continued to run them with the complete support of society and their employees. Women could also start up certain home-based businesses, especially spinning, weaving and brewing, even if they were also looking after children and the home. Whew! What a lot of work! But many did it. A woman with an unsatisfactory husband (like Shakespeare's daughter Judith) was in a bad way because not only did they have to start up businesses so their household would have the money the ne'er do well husband failed to provide, but was unable to fully control even the money they made since the husband was legally entitled (with a few exceptions) to do whatever he wanted with all of the property owned by the couple, or either of them. This was the primary legal disadvantage under which women in Shakespeare's day lived. Of course they couldn't vote, but nobody could back then so it didn't matter. We should now consider the position of the unmarried woman. Such women often took up jobs, such as spinning thread, which is why "spinster" meant until quite recently a woman who had never married. They also did needlework and weaving. However, unfortunately, one of the most common occupations for unmarried women was prostitution, a career path which led to early disease and death. On the whole, women had a significant social and economic role and were recognized for it. Englishwomen were allowed much more social freedom than their continental sisters, a fact remarked on by visitors from continental Europe. An extreme and unusual example of social toleration is the case of Mary Frith, the well-known transvestite, small-time crook and sensationalist, a contemporary of Shakespeare.

What rights do Egyptian women have?

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Egyptian women have a right to life, health, and happiness. They also have a right to privacy, education, and security.

What was Hillary Clinton's Women's rights are human rights speech about?

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This speech was about women's rights. It was to inform the world about what some women and girls have to go through.

What was a convention called to take a stand for women's rights?

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The conventions in the 19th and early 20th century were called suffrage conventions, and a notable one occurred at Seneca Falls, NY, in 1848.

What motivated Susan B. Anthony to be a womens rights advocate?

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Susan B. Anthony became motivated to start reform in favor of women's rights as a result of experiencing gender discrimination as early as grade school when a teacher refused to show her how to do long division, something readily taught to males.

The women that wrote the declaration of womens rights?

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Olympe De Gouges did in the times of the French Revolution.

It mostly stated that the Declaration of Rights of Men should have included women judging by it's figurative language.

What was the goal of the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls?

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The purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention was to use the Declaration of Independence to claim Womens Rights
To help the subject of women's rights and expand the movement for more freedom.

What rights did Ancient Egyptians have?

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People living under the Pharaohs basically had no rights as we know them. The rulers were absolute rulers.

How did womens rights effect the us?

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Before womens rights girls had to give it to us, now we have to give it to them as well...