Women's Rights In The 1900s

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Women’s rights in 1900s in Europe There is a word called ‘Feminism’ that is important to the world. The word Feminism means ‘The support of Women’s rights on the reason of same and equal genders’. This word ‘feminism’ came from French to report an incident that had came new to the historical main point. In Spain, the Royal Academy dictionary describe the word ‘feminism’ as ‘Social credo which lets women the capacity and rights formerly formal to men’. Most of the feminism women which also means most of the feminist were also rivals of slavery.

Lots of changes happened in the 1800s and 1900s. One of the examples was that the women had rights to pay equally as the men. Now these days, women also have a family to live with and they have rights …show more content…

Which her actual name is ‘Kate’. When she decided to attend on the scorpio race to prevent his brother ‘Gabe’ from leaving the island, she was the first girl/woman. All the other people were boys/men. The boys ignored Puck because the reason why she was a girl. In chapter 59, page 371, a reporter asks Puck “So you wouldn’t say you were inspired by the women’s suffrage movement?”. Puck said “I’m just a person with a horse, same as anyone else on this island”. When Puck said that to the reporter, it meant that there shouldn’t be any discrimination between genders. The way that Puck breaks down the fixed idea of female was by not letting the others and telling the others that also women and girls could do what they want and things that the men does. She showed to people in the island by attending the scorpio race. At the first time, it wasn’t meant to let people stop discriminating women.It was only to prevent Gabe from leaving the island. But as the times goes and people were talking that girls shouldn’t attend the race that boys does, Puck breaks the fixed idea and attend at the race.

In 1903, there was the first women’s governmental gathering. A woman named Emmeline Pankhurst was a british leader that represented women. She was the leader of the political/ governmental union. She had a quote saying that “The women and the men must have treated equally and the only way to enforce this is to give women