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…in the sixties. They desired an education. By having an education they didn’t need to be supported by men and therefore could not be forced into a compromising situation due to lack of financial support. They got jobs right along with men. Women have…

…accordingly. Being taught to cook, clean, sew, and cater to her husband’s every whim. It was not until women began to realize just how unfairly treated they were that they started to fight for their rights not only as women, but as citizens of this country…

…immediately arise due to a very effective propaganda campaign. Don't forget, the issue of women's rights only became important during the build up to the invasion of Afghanistan. The whole world clamoured at the supposed lack of choice in wearing the 'Burka…

…to gender roles. Gender roles are the rights, responsibilities, expectations, and relationships of women and men in a society. In every aspect of their lives, women were discriminated against. Women were seen as sexual objects, obsessed with luring men…

…and women in America's defense system? Both men and women have the right to serve in the military; but, many times women face discrimination and the problem of being unaccepted, possibly affecting women's ability to serve their country. The military was fully…

…of Reconstruction Acts by congress, which enabled free male slaves to vote. Because blacks were the majority in some areas of the southern United States, it became possible for them to be elected and to hold office. Women still, however, did not have the right to vote…

…abortions in the United States, women have had the individual right as people to decide the fate of their own bodies. This right can not be negotiated. People are not merely a means to an end, but ends themselves. A woman treated as an incubator of a fetus…

…in our range of vision, 'placing women outside their bodies to look at women only as sex objects' (Wolf, 1990, pp155). The first wave of feminism in the 1920's arose after a century of corsets and suppressed sexuality, where women started demanding the right…

…the younger was the principal female to change some of the privileges given to women. During the reign of Claudius and Nero we can see her power rise as she is given such rights as wearing the military cloak made entirely of woven gold and usually only worn by men…

…Legal abortions are essential in a free society that values women and their rights. Abortion is never an easy decision, but women have been making that decision for thousands of years. Whenever a society attempts to outlaw abortions, it ignores…