Causes and effects of women's rights and how it affected our lives in the 21st century in United States

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Women's rights are a broad concept that encompasses political, civil, and social rights. These include equal access to opportunities such as voting as well as equal access to a decent standard of living and a secure future. Many incidents of gender inequality have been reported in the history of the United States. In the 1950s, for example, medical schools in the country rarely admitted women because they would waste their education when they got married and had children. In the 1960s, the majority of doctors would not prescribe birth control pills to unmarried women because the law prohibited it. This exclusion extended to economic matters as even banks were reluctant to lend money to women.

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[...] It is an interesting read for anyone interested in understanding women's rights from the ancient times in the Roman World and England to the modern society. Shane Mountjoy is a distinguished professor in this field and provides links to the various sources he used in his work, which enhances the book's reliability. Paludi, Michele Antoinette. Feminism and Women's Rights Worldwide. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger In this source, Michele Paludi extensively covers the concept of feminism and its impact on women in today's society. [...]

[...] It presents cases on issues of women's rights from countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Iran, Japan, Nigeria, and the United States. These countries are located on different continents, helping the reader to understand the struggle of women from diverse angles. This book is relevant to my topic as it gives a historical analysis of women's rights issues in the 19th and 20th centuries and the impact they had on the modern world. Regarding reliability, the author has cited the works of many other authors on every topic. [...]

[...] The effect of women's rights in modern society is that responsibilities have changed dramatically. Traditionally, the role of a woman was childbearing and rearing. However, nowadays women have taken the lead in almost every facet of society. The discriminatory cultural systems and traditions that had limited women's roles in serving men have now been broken. The other effect on people's lives is that the opportunities for women have been greatly improved and expanded. Where we have reached, it will be another case of neglecting the boy child. [...]

[...] The 21st century In the 21st century, women all over the world are enjoying what their foremothers struggled to promote. In the US, women comprise a majority of the electorate. This is something that would delight Human Right's activist like Susan B. Antony (Mountjoy 134). Women have made significant academic, social, and occupational gains in the preceding years. They have made gains in professions traditionally reserved for men. Other measures of equality like equitable pay have been achieved despite taking many years. [...]

[...] The begining The realization of equal rights for men and women began in the 18th and 19th centuries. This was a period when the colonialists suppressed the rights of indigenous people in America and other colonized regions. It was also the era when European political and economic control over parts of America, Asia, and Africa was at its peak. The success of the independence movements and post-colonial nation building has always been correlated with discussions on the position of women in postcolonial societies (Walter 19). [...]