women's rights movement

Examples of women's rights movement in the following topics:

• Abolitionism and the Women's Rights Movement

  • Many women involved in the early abolitionist movement went on to be important leaders in the early women's rights and suffrage movements.
  • Two of the most influential were the anti-slavery or abolitionist movement, and the women's rights movement.
  • These were also closely related as many of the women who would go on to be leaders in the women's rights movement got their political start in the abolitionist movement.
  • The 1848 Seneca Falls convention is one of the key early moments in the suffrage and women's rights movement in the US.
  • The convention was organized primarily by a group of Quaker women during a visit by Lucretia Mott, a Quaker woman well known for her role in the abolition movement and advocacy for women's rights.

• The Women's Rights Movement

  • The women's rights movement refers to political struggles to achieve rights claimed for women and girls of many societies worldwide.
  • In the United States, second-wave feminism, initially called the Women's Liberation Movement , began during the early 1960s and lasted through the late 1990s.
  • Movements emerged which demanded freedom of religion, the abolition of slavery, rights for women, rights for those who did not own property and universal suffrage.
  • In the late 18th century the question of women's rights became central to political debates in both France and Britain.
  • However, the changing of social attitudes towards women is usually considered the greatest success of the women's movement.

• The Feminist Movement

  • The feminist movement (also known as the women's movement or women's liberation) refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues, such as women's suffrage, reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay in the workplace, maternity leave, sexual harassment, and sexual violence.
  • The first wave refers to the feminist movement of the nineteenth through early twentieth centuries, which focused mainly on women's suffrage .
  • One of the most important organizations that formed out of the women's rights movement is the National Organization for Women (NOW).
  • Although passage failed, the women's rights movement has made significant inroads in reproductive rights, sexual harassment law, pay discrimination, and equality of women's sports programs in schools.
  • As a whole, the feminist movement has brought changes to U.S. society, including women's suffrage, the right to initiate divorce proceedings and "no fault" divorce, the right of women to make individual decisions regarding pregnancy (including access to contraceptives and abortion), and the right to own property.

• The Women's Suffrage Movement

  • The Women's Suffrage Movement refers to social movements around the world dedicated to achieving voting rights for women.
  • The Women's Suffrage Movement refers to social movements around the world dedicated to achieving voting rights for women.
  • In 1869, the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution which gave black men the right to vote, split the movement.
  • The conflict caused two organizations to emerge, the National Woman Suffrage Association, which campaigned for women's suffrage at a federal level and for married women to be given property rights.  
  • World War I provided the final push for women's suffrage in America.

• Women vs. Men

  • Even when considering so-called "women's issues", such as reproductive choices and rights or equal pay legislation, women do not vote as a bloc.
  • The high rates of women's involvement in voting (in spite of being excluded from voting for so long) can be partially explained by women's high involvement in other forms of political participation.
  • This includes the suffrage movement that saw women organizing and campaigning to win women the right to vote.
  • Women across the US organized for decades to gain the right to vote for women.
  • Explain the historical causes for women's greater participation in American politics

• Minorities, Women, and Children

  • Minorities, women, and children are often the target of specific social policies.
  • Minorities, women, and children are often the target of specific social policies.
  • While in most societies, numbers of men and women are roughly equal, the status of women as a subordinate group has led some (especially within feminist movements) to equate them with minorities.
  • Children can also be understood as a minority group in these terms, as they are economically non-active and not necessarily given all the rights of adult citizens.
  • The Civil Rights Movement attempted to increase rights for minorities within the U.S.

• Women in American Politics

  • As women campaigned for and eventually received the right to vote, they began running for, and being elected to, public office.
  • Though women obtained the right to vote in the United States in 1920, many women of color still ran into obstacles.
  • Despite the fact that elements of the Black Power Movement had some views centered on misogyny, African-American women quickly found a voice in the movement.
  • Other women also contributed to the grass-roots movement through community service.
  • The paths to public office for women in the African-American community have differed from men and other groups, such as women's organizations, rallies, and fundraisers.

• LGBTQ Civil Rights

  • The LGBTQ rights movement refers to the efforts of individuals and organizations to improve the social and legal standing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) people.
  • The Stonewall Riots of 1969 are often thought to mark the starting point of a worldwide LGBTQ rights movement.
  • While these relationships were often intimate and resembled marriage, and were sometimes colloquially referred to as "Boston marriages," the women in these partnerships were more often advocates for women's rights than for homosexual rights and did not identify as lesbians.
  • By the 1950s "homophile organizations" comprised of self-identified homosexual men and women arose.
  • Identify the historical origins and issues relevant for the LGBTQ rights movement

• The Devolution Revolution

  • The devolution revolution was a movement started by Reagan in the 1980s that involves the gradual return of power to the states.
  • New Federalism is sometimes called "states' rights," which is a theory in U.S. politics that refers to political powers reserved for the U.S. state governments rather than the federal government.
  • Its proponents usually eschew the idea of states' rights because of its associations with Jim Crow laws and segregation.
  • Unlike the states' rights movement of the mid-20th century which centered around the civil rights movement, the modern federalist movement is concerned far more with expansive interpretations of the Commerce Clause, as in the areas of medical marijuana (Gonzalez v.
  • Morrison, which struck down portions of the Violence Against Women Act), or agriculture (Wickard v.

• The First Spouse

  • Lady Bird Johnson pioneered environmental protection and beautification; Pat Nixon encouraged volunteerism and traveled extensively abroad; Betty Ford supported women's rights; Rosalynn Carter aided those with mental disabilities; Nancy Reagan founded the Just Say No drug awareness campaign; Barbara Bush promoted literacy; Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reform the healthcare system in the U.S.; and Laura Bush supported women's rights groups and encouraged childhood literacy.
  • Lady Bird Johnson pioneered environmental protection and beautification; Pat Nixon encouraged volunteerism and traveled extensively abroad; Betty Ford supported women's rights; Rosalynn Carter aided those with mental disabilities; Nancy Reagan founded the Just Say No drug awareness campaign; Barbara Bush promoted literacy; Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reform the healthcare system in the U.S.; and Laura Bush supported women's rights groups and encouraged childhood literacy.
  • First Ladies Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush (standing, left to right), Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Rosalynn Carter, and Betty Ford (seated, left to right) at the dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, November 1991.