By the time when Europeans arrived, women’s rights were taken away. They “[were] unable to own property, bring suits, make contracts or act as a legal individual” meaning that they were limited in public life and in social affairs (Ryan and Kelly 22) (of there are multiple authors for this, then this in-text citation is good, if it’s just one author then you should write “(Last name 22). That being the case, “women inhabited a separate, private sphere, one suitable for the so called inherent qualities of femininity: emotion, passivity, submission, dependence, and selflessness, all derived, it was claimed insistently, form women’s sexual and reproductive organization” (Kent 30) which allowed men to treat women as a slave. Women were considered as irrational creatures because in that time period, men thought, “[women were] weak creature no endued with like strength and constancy of mind” (“The Significance of the Frontier in American History” give the page number) When you cite a title, add quotations. Despite their limited rights, they continued to have a big influence on the construction of the government of the United States; they were fearless to protest and to express their …show more content…
In this demonstration women protested against the pageant because it showed how all women were hurt by unrealistic beauty expectations. In other words, this protest was significant for the stereotype (explain which stereotype) that was inadvertently created. This was one of the most prominent displays of the feminist backlash against cosmetics and attracted more women to the women’s liberation movement. While these women were fighting against make-up. The liberation movement is the provision of equal rights to women in social, work and family life. Notably, the Liberation Movement provided with equal pay. In other words, demonstrations closed the pay gap. In fact, according to the U.S. Women 's Bureau and NCPE (National Committee on Pay Equity - The National Committee for a fair wage), a record level, the gap reached in 1973, when women earned on average 56.6% of the earnings of men doing the same job. It was the year of the decade in 1963 adopted a law on equal pay (Equal Pay Act), proclaimed the illegality of actions of employers who paid unequal wages to men and women holding a post and perform the same job. ("The women’s liberation movement" Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women 's Studies Resources, Nyland). “In 1963, the comparable figure was 58%” ("The women’s liberation movement" Feminist