International Women's Day

less of. Viewed as the weaker sex, they did not have the same privileges that men had throughout the centuries. For many years women had no choice but to be stay at home moms. Taking care of the kids, cleaning the house, and cooking was a woman’s day to day job. Then, the industrial revolution came and changed everything. Women began to work in factories and had a source of income. Soon women got the right to vote and the equality between men and women grew. Although the equality between men…

Abstract: The most striking feature of Indian English novel is the appearance of women novelists who gave new dimension to Indian English novel. In the beginning of the 1980’s, Indian English Literature received an international status. After independence, women writing have acquired an importance more than even before. They have started questioning the age old oppression and colonization. Indian women writers in English fiction have been presenting women as the centre of concern in their…

many barriers to achieve their goals, not all believe it is the right choice. Making some women be the bystanders to these problems that are occurring right in front of them. When women started paying attention to women's rights was in the year of 1920, the fight for women's suffrage. Taking nearly a hundred years for them to have the same rights and responsibility as men. Women were not allowed to work in factories since men believed strongly against women working at all, giving them the…

How did Second Wave Feminism affect the lives of women? Second Wave feminism is recgonized as an active period of feminist activism beginning in the 1960’s and ending in the late 1980’s. The fight for legal equality and suffrage began with the First Wave feminists in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and much of the basis for Second Wave feminism is based in the views of equality between men and woman. Second Wave feminism worked to create greater equality in social aspects and…

to interpret the major weakness of the Canadian economy, which is Canada’s heavy independence on the export of primary resources. The competition of growing wheat in different countries and selling them in international markets resulted in the overproduction of wheat in Canada. As international sales…

Historically, human rights violations began when Cain killed his brother Abel and violated his right to have a life. Therefore, humans agreed that a murder without guilt is a kind of human right’s abuse. Also, there are many examples in history of human rights violations, such as prisoners’ torture after the war ended, the slave bazaars, and arbitrary executions. Today, people are becoming more aware of human rights defense, even with the emergence of a lot of abuses. The existence of media…

1990s, Canty led the Local 226 and under her leadership it became one of the largest unions in Southern Nevada that represented thousands of hospitality industry workers. As a member of the executive board, Local 226 staged a successful seventy-five-day walkout against Las Vegas casinos in an effort to gain better health insurance benefits for restaurant workers…

of 1992, Rosa Parks had the honor of winning the Abbey Courage of Conscience. Then in 1993, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of fame. She was awarded with the Detroit-Windsor International Freedom Festival Freedom Award, and presented the Medal of Freedom Award in 1996.The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center presented Rosa Parks with the International Freedom Conductor Award in 1998. She was also presented with the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999. The State of Alabama…

Jane Addams changed the world in ways you couldn’t imagine. She impacted the lives of many Americans, and we still thank her to this day for the effect she had on America. The life of Jane Addams was interesting, eventful, and very inspiring to many American citizens. Jane was a woman’s rights advocate, social worker, peace activist, and settlement house founder (History.com paragraph one). Jane truly made the world a better place. Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville,…

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…