Women's health

contraception was a healthy source of population control.The birth control movement of the modern and Progressive Era had a positive effect on women because of the education on contraception,allowing women to enter the workforce, and improving women’s health. Margaret Sanger was an integral part of this movement especially with her educational pamphlet. Reformers fought for contraception education. Prior to their efforts, the Comstock Act of 1873 banned women from receiving treatment or proper…

“Don’t get an abortion because it’s wrong!” and so much more. It is not hard to tell that in our society women are not treated equally, this is due to numerous factors in our history, however the single most major obstacle that restrains women is women’s health rights. Women are shamed on a daily basis for their bodies, whether it is the way they look or what they wish to do with them, it is a fundamental human right that women are constantly denied. Women all over the world are told what to do…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is often considered a feminist classic. Evaluate this claim. THESIS STATEMENT: The yellow wallpaper is a short story that describes the attitude towards women's physical and mental health in the 19th century. By writing this short story the author likely attempts to shed some light on being mentally ill women in male-dominated society. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper” www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescript…

equality among the women. During this time, women were treated as another race than a gender, or sex. This movement known as Women’s Rights Movement is the reason that women started reaching equal treatment between the workforce and government. Although there was a Women’s Rights Movement, there are issues that still have not been address. These issues are dealing with women’s economics, leadership, education, safety, etc. The things that women are being denied have broken the boundaries of…

Owning Your Own Body: The women’s movement for reproductive agency In Jennifer Nelson’s More Than Medicine, sociologist and historian Zakiya Luna explains that reproductive rights and reproductive justice are not synonymous (Nelson, 194). Additionally, reproductive rights are not exclusively bound to abortion, although 1970s and 80s white-based women’s movements made this their main platform. Reproductive rights emphasize a woman’s entitlement to choose what to do with her body, which includes…

humanitarian action is to protect life and health and ensure respect for Human beings. The purpose of humanitarian action is to address the suffering of women, girls, men and boys, to protect their lives, health, and to ensure respect for them as human beings. Humanitarian actors must be aware that women’s and girls’ marginalization within most …

suffered by women in the workplace is surfacing as a central obstacle to women achieving economic independence. Sexual harassment, pregnancy-based discrimination, and gender-based violence in the workplace are common and constant threats to working women's lives and livelihoods. Migrant workers are especially vulnerable to abuse, including trafficking and forced labor. In countries like Mexico, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic, the laws fail to adequately protect women workers' rights and…

support to the amendment because it did not have any clause for women’s right to vote. The movement gained momentum during World War I (WWI). When WWI was declared as the war for democracy by President Woodrow Wilson, women took the streets claiming that the US was not a democracy. In 1918, the President gave a pro-suffrage speech and the 19th amendment was passed the next year giving women the right to vote.…

Much like my experience at the Foundation Communities Health Fair, I volunteered to register folks to vote while also discussing the need to protect reproductive services for women in Texas. Volunteering at the Legislate THIS: Election Edition! burlesque show was quite interesting because I had never been to one and it was a chance to engage with people about the importance of being involved in women’s health issues. In an effort to bring more awareness and support to this event, I advertised…

early 1970s, the changing political context of the period and the development of civil rights movements mobilized for radical change contributed to the emergence of a dynamic movement for women's rights. The widespread promotion of birth control reinforced the idea of women’s sexual emancipation. Thus, the early women’s rights movement proposed a reproductive rights discourse advocating sex equality arguments and advanced abortion rights claims that they tied to questions of political…