The women’s rights movement in the 1900’s fought for women’s right to vote and equality, for the most part. Women of color and women of different religions were sometimes excluded and Alice Paul, the leader of the National Women’s Party was no exception “Paul 's charismatic speaking and organizing abilities won her and the National Woman 's Party many supporters, but her domineering elitism, aloofness, anti-Semitism, and dilution of black women 's participation in the suffrage fight evoked criticism from others” (“Commentary on Alice Paul”). So, my advice to Alice is when fighting for equality you can not forget about groups of people and dismiss them. They deserve the same rights as you. this way, in the future it will make it easier for these groups of people that are already fighting against injustice to improve their lives, instead of fighting against what leaders of the time say.
Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. One method women used to earn support is that they organized a parade in Washington, D.C., the same day the president was coming into town so that there was large crowds. Many of the people in the crowd were men who, along with drinking also disagreed with the right for women to vote. They began to yell then even throw objects at the women walking in the parade. Eventually, the police walked away giving the men the opportunity to attack.
as they did not gain or keep the access to the professionals nor did they come close to earning equal pay for the same type of work if they continued to hold their jobs after the men returned. Because of the frustrations held by these women, it the led to the start of feminist movements. The late 1950s and 60s became years of change for women with people becoming more vocal about equal rights for women. This led to President Kennedy, in 1961, establishing the Commission on the Status of Women which examined issues relating to women because of the growing interest in women’s rights (Sink).
The New Right was a political movement that originally began as a reactionary response to the counter culture movement spreading across the United States in the mid 1960s. The New Right ascended to national political prominence in the 1970s as a conglomeration of many different political groups, including many single issue action groups. The ideologies of this movement were expressed in three issues: a desire to see the country to return to its fundamental traditional values both politically and religiously, and the devotion to idea of national conspiracy theories, real or imagined. The New Right saw the democratic upswing and counterculture of the 1960s as the “decay” of traditional American values.
The first decades of the twentieth century marked a significant shift in the roles of women in society. As the country shifted into a new era of industrialization and modernization, women began to challenge traditional societal expectations and advocate for greater freedom and equality. Different groups of women defined freedom in different ways. For middle-class white women, the suffrage movement was about gaining the right to vote and having a say in the political process. For working-class women, the fight for freedom was about gaining economic independence and the right to work outside of the home.
Women have moved from the stereotypical and inaccurate image as inferior to men, to more bold, equal and independent humans. The Women’s Movement made Canada become serious about gender discrimination, bringing a monumental shift in the Canadian society and sparked a new debate about the role of women, and how they should be treated. Thereby, pushing not only Canada, but also many other countries to draft gender discrimination laws. These changes brought women out of the household into the workplace which fundamentally changed society. The Women’s Movement called out rape culture, and some of the stigma surrounding sexual assault, giving survivors the language and opportunity to label their sexual trauma.
Before many lived amongst this earth, the way of living was completely different than how it is today. Some feel as if the United States has become a better place to live over the past 45 years, and others feel as if things have fallen apart. In the 1970’s few laws have been passed to better both, society and association. In early 1970’s, Title IX, the Education Amendments Act has been signed. Back in the days, living for women was much more difficult than it was for men.
The women’s movement of the 1970s had made much needed gains promoting gender equality with the United States Congress passing numerous women’s rights bills, such as Title IX, banning gender discrimination in federally funded educational programs, while the Supreme Court made landmark decisions protecting women’s right to privacy dealing concerning reproductive rights. Even conservative presidents such as President Nixon supported feminist goals such as federal childcare programs. America had finally made progress since the days of the 1950s cult of domesticity. INSERT TIMELINE The culmination of these changes was to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which mandated gender equality.
Women’s rights have been a long and rocky struggle, leaving many women pessimistic today. Still, the movement was and is revolutionary in America’s
Women in the United States have been the subject of inequality for centuries. Since the country’s inception, have faced unjust social and economic discrimination, a lack of voting rights, limited educational opportunities, forced traditional gender roles, and the inability to own property. In the 1800s, women in the North began to reject traditional gender roles and saw their quest for equality like that of enslaved people, who were shackled and controlled by white men. Many abolitionist women began to challenge the male-dominated society they lived in by taking direct action by advocating for women's rights, and this fight for equality would eventually lead to massive reform in women’s rights and change American history for the better.
Introduction According to Dowden & Andrews (1999), since 2010, there has been a growing concern over the increasing rate of incarceration for women: an alarming rate of 3.4 percent annually. Some experts like Kruttschnitt (2010) explain that the growth of incarcerated women population is due mainly to two major factors; one contributor to this phenomenon is the war on drugs. As politicians are passing more aggressive anti-drug policies and as police are cracking down on drug offenders, increasing amounts of women are being caught with illegal substances. The second reason is the the switch from indeterminate sentencing to determinate sentencing which is forcing women to stay in prison for longer than is necessary.
II.WOMEN RIGHTS IN THE 50s The 1950s was known by many as the decade of conformity, meaning both gen-ders were pinned to traditional gender roles. Men worked as the breadwinners while women worked in the houses. This notion, basically makes one understand, that the women rights movement was in its developing phase and being a woman basically meant being a housewife. This makes the disadvantages such as the marriage bar policy and lack of diversity in the movement of women rights in the 1950s outweigh its ad-vantages.
Women of color are the most targeted, prosecuted, and imprisoned women in the country and rapidly increasing their population within the prison systems. According to Nicholas Freudenberg, 11 out of every 1000 women will end up incarcerated in their lifetime, the average age being 35, while only five of them are white, 15 are Latinas, and 36 are black. These two groups alone make up 70 percent of women in prison, an astonishing rate compared to the low percentage comprise of within the entire female population in the country (1895). Most of their offenses are non-violent, but drug related, and often these women come from oppressive and violent backgrounds, where many of their struggles occurred directly within the home and from their own family.
No government system can fully be indiscriminate against two groups, and this is true in our legal system’s final destination: prison. In prison, the two binary genders face unique and distinct problems that the other gender may not face. While they both face different issues the biggest ones each faces leads to increased likelihood of recidivism, or going back to prison. The issues that the genders face in prison is noticeable, with considerable differences between men and women, yet there does not seem to be a consensus of whether or not these problems warrant change.
There are many indicators of the huge impact in disparities in sentencing women as compared to men and more so when it revolves around minorities ( race and class). Though there are lower crime rates among women as compared to men, there are significant disparities which tend to show favouritism to women. Research has shown that men get 63 per cent longer custodial sentences than women. In addition, it is twice more likely to have women get non custodial sentences even after conviction. However, as mentioned the disparities are more profound when issues of race and class are intertwined in the sentencing.
