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

8, Elizabeth stated that “ In the convenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband”. Meaning that the women were obligated to do what the husband say to do. In paragraph 7, she states how everything the women owns or have , goes to the husband. Stanton says “He has taken her from all her property even the wages she owns. The men also didn’t want their wives going to college. Relying on paragraph 11, it states “He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education”. Today women can go to college without their husbands say so. Women don’t have to listen to their husbands commands. Also whatever the women own, they own it not their husbands only.
Two women, Ariane Hegewisch and Maxwell Matite did some research on how the women didn’t get paid equally as men 150 years ago.

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

women.
It took women years just to get their rights back . Women had to protest, discuss, and debate for their rights. In the “ Women Rights Movement in the U.S Timeline” , its shows how long it took for women to get their rights. In 1848, it says “ The first Women’s Right convection is held in Seneca , New York. After 2 Days of discussion” . After the convection women started to take action. In 1919 a couple years after the first convention it says that “ The federal women suffrage amendment is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate”. The women were in the process of getting their rights passed. Finally,in 2013, the timeline says “ In Jan.2013 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the ban on women serving in combat roles would be lifted”. Basically, the women began to get their rights back. I dont think women should have to do that if the men didn’t. Now women are free and treated equally.
Others may still think we still aren’t successful at achieving equality, but to my opinion we have. Women now didn’t have to do what women did 150 years ago, had to do. Women now are getting paid equally as men that are working the same job. They don’t have to do all the protesting for many years. Now women can have husbands and still go to college and keep what they own to themselves.So I believe that we have been successful at achieving equality between men and women!