Women’s Rights Movement
Introduction
Since time memorial women’s rights, movements have been concerned with various issues about women. The goals of these movements kept on changing as women learnt more about their rights. The goals women fought for in the early 1920s were different from those fought for in 1970s. This paper shall discuss the various rights fought for and how women rights movement changed over time. The paper shall allude from Gloria Steinem ‘Testimony on Equal rights amendment’, Margret Sanger’s ‘The case of birth control’, and Jane Addams, ‘Utilization of women in city government’.
The women’s rights movement in the 1970s was a second wave feminism. Most of the organizations championing for women’s rights were more divided on what issues to advocate. One particular organization The Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Council was formed in 1973 under the leadership of Gloria Steinem, who fought for the independence of a woman over a man. Steinem argued that gender should not be a threshold of civil rights (Steinem 142). …show more content…
Since the civil rights movement was considered a disruption to public order, Steinem argument was that the women’s right movement was targeted at promoting democracy principles. Steinem made it clear to the committee; women did not expect to be treated in a special due to the mythical belief that they were inferior to men. She argued that women were indeed superior to men using biological statistics like life expectancy, and health reports that suggested women were superior to men. Steinem also refuted the claim that women were already equal to men, she argued that women did not receive equal pay as men, as a result had no economic power (Steinem
Introduction
Since time memorial women’s rights, movements have been concerned with various issues about women. The goals of these movements kept on changing as women learnt more about their rights. The goals women fought for in the early 1920s were different from those fought for in 1970s. This paper shall discuss the various rights fought for and how women rights movement changed over time. The paper shall allude from Gloria Steinem ‘Testimony on Equal rights amendment’, Margret Sanger’s ‘The case of birth control’, and Jane Addams, ‘Utilization of women in city government’.
The women’s rights movement in the 1970s was a second wave feminism. Most of the organizations championing for women’s rights were more divided on what issues to advocate. One particular organization The Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Council was formed in 1973 under the leadership of Gloria Steinem, who fought for the independence of a woman over a man. Steinem argued that gender should not be a threshold of civil rights (Steinem 142). …show more content…
Since the civil rights movement was considered a disruption to public order, Steinem argument was that the women’s right movement was targeted at promoting democracy principles. Steinem made it clear to the committee; women did not expect to be treated in a special due to the mythical belief that they were inferior to men. She argued that women were indeed superior to men using biological statistics like life expectancy, and health reports that suggested women were superior to men. Steinem also refuted the claim that women were already equal to men, she argued that women did not receive equal pay as men, as a result had no economic power (Steinem