Women's Rights Dbq

Over the past 150 years we have been successful at achieving equality between genders. Back then women didn’t have as much rights that women have now. Women then , their rights were taken by their husbands and their lives were also controlled by them. Women were not getting paid equally as the men. Also women had to protest, discuss, and debate for their rights. Now men and women are working together getting paid the same amount. Women can also own property. Women and men both basically have the same rights today. Others may still think we are not successful at achieving because women husbands still control them or still getting treated like how women were treated 150 years ago. In the speech by Elizabeth Cady Stanton she stated ways how the women only had a few rights and were controlled by men in 1848. At that time , 1848 , women rights were taken away by their husbands. The men also controlled their wives. In paragraph

Starting with paragraph 1, it shares how the women got paid less than the men even when they worked the same. It says, “ During 2012, median weekly earnings for full-time workers were $691, compared with $854 per week for men. Basically, women had to work extra to get paid like the men. Also, Hegewisch and Matite found that most of the women worked with the men. In paragraph 2, says “ Four out of ten women worked in traditionally female occupations and between 4 and 5 males worked in traditionally male occupations”. So, women barely worked in their own occupation , to make living. Lastly, Latina women were found to have low paying jobs and skilled occupations. In paragraph 5, it proves by saying “ The comparison of earnings in broad occupational groups by race and enthnicity show that Latina women are particularly likely to be in lower skilled occupations”. Today Latinas are equally treated to other any race of