Women’s legal rights movement in the USA from 1960 until present

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The legal rights of women has been one of the historical issues that the federal government and state government in US have had to address It started as small voiceless group in the 19th century but got momentum in the 1960s during the greatest American civil rights revolution . Women had been discriminated as weak and inferior to men for a very long time . But with the education of female gender and access to job opportunities it can be noted that women are

capable of performing tasks equivalent to men . Women movements have done considerable work to have legal rights of women entrenched in the constitution . Although th e laws have given women more chance and opportunity than before , there is still much to be done

WOMEN LEGAL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS

Women have long been a neglect lot in the history of human development Ideology from the historical perspectives have viewed women as inferior to male gender in many aspects such as intellectual and leadership capabilities . Women have suffered a brunt of mens ego for along time The women rights gained public attention in the USA as early as 1848 where their grievances came to public domain . It set the agenda for women rights and several conventions were held later that culminated to the emergence of women rights movement in USA (Imbornoni , 2008

Previously women issues have had less legal and career openings over men . It relegated women to roles of wive and mother . The right to vote for women in the 20th century was a foundation for increasing the chances of women in educational and career undertakings . The notion of most people in the early times was that women were inferior and source of evils and temptation and referred as children . Teachings in the early Christian theology reinforced the idea that women were evil and wicked . In other countries the attitude was different and more positive towards women affairs such as in India women were free to own property and marry . However with the evolution of Hinduism , women were required to obey their husbands and could not own wealth (DaMetz , 1994

It has been proven that when women are given opportunities in education and leadership to exercise their might . They are found to perform exceptionally well like men . For instance the women religious leaders in the past enjoyed great influence of power and prestige as well as in leadership such as the Queens of England in the 16th century (Elizabeth ) and 19th century (Victoria . Women were relegated to house work and less muscular task while heavy work like hunting and ploughing was for men . But women are known to be highly tolerant to pain diseases and have higher life expectancy than men (DaMetz , 1994

In the twentieth century women movements emerged more vigorously to champion for the rights of women in issues like contraceptives abortion , education , gender discrimination , employment opportunities and more gender based discrimination . For instance in early 20th century women attending school was...