Abstract At one time women were denied the same beliefs we in the year 2004, take for granted in the United States of America. We all strive to live in a nation of religious freedoms. We have the ability to elect the government we support with taxes from monies we earn. We live free, with out the threat of enslavement. Over the past seventy years, significant social and legal changes have been accomplished regarding women. Women …
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…million women now work in occupations considered "nontraditional" until very recently. Women today are living the legacy of women's rights that seven generations of women before have given their best to realize. Alice Paul, the bold organizer who first wrote out the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923, said, "I always feel the movement is sort of a mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end."