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…, therefore giving the single woman a slight advantage over the married woman. Women were required to restrict their individual rights to the domestic life. . Housework and child care were considered the only proper activities for married women. Many times…

…. Article 6a of the Cairo Declaration specifies that women are equal to men "in human dignity" and have "rights to enjoy as well as duties to perform." Article 6b declares the husband as the caretaker of the family. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights makes…

…). Out of the fight for civil rights came the Women’s Movement and the Gay Rights movement. Women and homosexuals also saw themselves as a class of people shut out of the American system, just as African Americans had been. Women and homosexuals wanted equal…

…about. In 1861, a man named John Stuart Mill wrote The Subjection of Women, which was said to have spawned the ideology of the Women’s Rights Movement (Ryan 11). He discussed the role of women is society during that time, pointing out how the patriarchy…

…and into the workplace. But was this for the best. Women today still struggle to find equality in the workplace. Society, which was run by men, allowed women to come out of the home and to teach. So women did make a great stride in the right direction, but only because…

…. This amendment ended racial suffrage, and gave all males the right to vote. Some states, in order to keep African-Americans from voting, added a poll tax. Next women started to petition for their right to vote. This process took a long time because no women…

…the Court struck down a state law that prohibited the use of contraceptives by a married couple. The decision was later extended to protect the rights of single persons and, in a major development in 1973, the right of women to abort an unwanted pregnancy…

…. Women in New France were pressured into marriage more so than in Old France, but they were granted special laws to protect their rights as women. The Coutume de Paris, a French legal system, protected the rights of family members. Since the women often…

…and in doing so, they paved the way for the success of future generations of women. The years following the turn of the century were a time of much political empowerment for women. First and foremost, in 1920 women were finally given the right to vote; a right…

…The Role of Women in Tennessee Elections In Tennessee in 1919 women were recruiting the votes of other women to vote for the first time. In Nashville, suffragists who had been working for many years for this right, hastily organized women to register…