1848 was the year women started fighting for their rights meaning women have been fighting for their rights for over 150 years. The women’s rights movement was started by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1869, thanks to them women now have proper rights. Their goals for this movement included getting women custody over their children, control over their bodies, equal access to employment, an equal education, equality within marriage, and married women’s rights to their properties and wages. By the end of the 19th century, the women’s rights movement had become a worldwide movement. The 1848 Seneca Falls Women’s rights convention marked the beginning of women fighting for their rights. This essay is about women’s rights specifically …show more content…
Women started forming informal athletic clubs in New York and New Orleans. The most common sports that women would play were tennis, croquet, bowling, and archery. Women’s athletic programs were often underfunded or underserved so consequently they didn’t compete much. In the late 1800s, women were not allowed in the Olympics because it was considered impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and indecent. Women were often viewed and are still viewed as mothers and wives first and then athletes. Toxic stereotypes and masculinity make female athletes to be sexualized and objectified meaning that their looks gather more press and attention than their skills. Women have fought for equal wages and simply the right to compete. In 1922 the year when the first women’s Olympic games took place in Paris, women competed in more physically demanding sports such as the 1000-meter dash. In 1940 the first women’s professional sports league was founded and started. Nowadays women have many if not all equal opportunities in sports and can make a living out of them thanks to the fight they put