Women’s Rights in America
Women have run for Congress, broken olympic records, gone to space, became successful in their fields of study. Yet, women receive less pay in the work field, seemingly to be because men are looked at as being able to get the job done, and do more. Men may also be looked at as worth more. Many Americans do not know that the US Constitution does not guarantee equal rights for men and women. Women throughout America are not given equal rights as men. For centuries, women and men have been treated completely different. Women are beginning to no longer tolerate the inequality and unfairness in their environment.
In the past, activists have proposed amendments that were designed to guarantee equal rights for women, but …show more content…
Yet, people are out here killing minors, as well as adults. People's kids, parents, families etc; and they’re getting away with it. Walking out of court not even phased, almost like nothing even happened.
“Incarceration of women expose them to sexual assault, injury, and poor nutrition”(Sufrin, Kolbi-Molinas, and Roth 1). These three women came together to create a article; Reproductive Justice, Health Disparities and Incarcerated Women in the United States, which discusses the trouble of incarcerated women.
Under the constitution, abortion is a fundamental right under the United States. “‘A woman’s constitutional right to abortion… survives incarceration’ meaning, incarcerated women have the right to abort their unborn child”(Sufrin, Kolbi-Molinas, and Roth 2). Yet, “women are forced to continue their pregnancies and are not given their 14th amendment right”(Sufrin, Kolbi-Molinas, and Roth 2). The three authors then began to tell a story of a woman in Texas who filed a lawsuit against a jail for ignoring her when she went into preterm labor. “After twelve hours of pleading for help, she gave birth in a
Women have run for Congress, broken olympic records, gone to space, became successful in their fields of study. Yet, women receive less pay in the work field, seemingly to be because men are looked at as being able to get the job done, and do more. Men may also be looked at as worth more. Many Americans do not know that the US Constitution does not guarantee equal rights for men and women. Women throughout America are not given equal rights as men. For centuries, women and men have been treated completely different. Women are beginning to no longer tolerate the inequality and unfairness in their environment.
In the past, activists have proposed amendments that were designed to guarantee equal rights for women, but …show more content…
Yet, people are out here killing minors, as well as adults. People's kids, parents, families etc; and they’re getting away with it. Walking out of court not even phased, almost like nothing even happened.
“Incarceration of women expose them to sexual assault, injury, and poor nutrition”(Sufrin, Kolbi-Molinas, and Roth 1). These three women came together to create a article; Reproductive Justice, Health Disparities and Incarcerated Women in the United States, which discusses the trouble of incarcerated women.
Under the constitution, abortion is a fundamental right under the United States. “‘A woman’s constitutional right to abortion… survives incarceration’ meaning, incarcerated women have the right to abort their unborn child”(Sufrin, Kolbi-Molinas, and Roth 2). Yet, “women are forced to continue their pregnancies and are not given their 14th amendment right”(Sufrin, Kolbi-Molinas, and Roth 2). The three authors then began to tell a story of a woman in Texas who filed a lawsuit against a jail for ignoring her when she went into preterm labor. “After twelve hours of pleading for help, she gave birth in a