Women's Rights Essay

Throughout history women have suffered from inequalities that differentiate from men, including the right to vote among many others. When New Zealand granted women the right to vote it empowered women from other countries to fight for the vote, where Europe and the Unites States then fought for women’s rights changing them forever. Many suffrage groups were formed, throughout the U.S and Europe, to fight for women’s rights. Two major events, Seneca Falls, and a parade led by Alice Paul, created a turning point for women’s rights.
As far back as the Paleolithic era, women had different rights then men. Some of the injustices women faced include, not having a right to vote, a voice in law, and women could not enter most occupations. Women were not even allowed to get a college education. Once a women was married she had no rights, or in the case that the women got divorced she had no legally could not have custody of her children. Many religious believed God created women to be inferior. It was considered a natural law that men were above women. When women started the fight for more rights, it started out as a political and legal fight and eventually turned into a social and economic fight as well. Many women who started the fight, died before they could see there work pay off, including Susan Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone. In the U.S, Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren fought for the addition of women’s emancipation in the constitution. During the late 18th century, in the United States men had many rights while women had very few. Women also could not keep their own wages. One right woman maintained was the right to own property if their husband died.
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...women, some consider it to be “reverse discrimination” because the are filling job spots with people not best suited for the job but to follow the law of having a diverse community .
In the past and present there has been discrimination between men and women based around many different rights including the right to vote. There were many suffrage groups, but The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, The Women’s Suffrage and Political Union, and The National American Women’s Suffrage Association helped turn women’s suffrage around the most. In the U.S two major events that occurred were turning points for World Suffrage, not just in the U.S but other countries too. New Zealand was the first country to grant women equal rights as men, motivating women around the world to start fighting, where it then changed forever starting in Europe and the United States.