Women's Rights In The 1920s

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Have you ever wondered why women didn’t have the same rights as men to begin with? Even to this day, people still think of women as minorities because of their gender. It took many conventions and meetings for women to finally be granted voting rights in 1920. Why didn’t women have not only voting rights but any legal rights to begin with? There were many expectations and stereotypes for women a few centuries ago. There was something called ‘The cult of true womanhood’. Women were expected to get married, then stay at home and run a smoothe household. People assumed that men would take care of all the politics, and so women had no legal rights. In the 18th-19th century, you would never see or hear about a woman lawyer or politician. That’s