Your Questions About Women's Platforms

Sandra asks…

Women's rights?

Tell me two ways in which women historically have not had the same rights as men. Tell me and discuss two people, groups, and/or events that have helped women in their struggle for equal rights and how. _______________________________________________ ^ Please give me information or the answer. Thanks... In America

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Which historical time period do you want? Which civilization do you want? For my answer, I guess I'll stick with the United States and the United Kingdom. American women advocated women's right to vote from the 1820s onward. This was first achieved in the relatively sparsely-populated territories of Wyoming (1869) and briefly in Utah (1870), although Utah women were disenfranchised by the U.S. Congress in 1887. Other territories and states granted women the right to vote in the late 19th and early 20th century, but national women's suffrage did not come until the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1920. By the 1960s the movement was called "feminism" or "women's liberation." Reformers wanted the same pay as men, equal rights in law, and the freedom to plan their families or not have children at all. N the last three decades of the 20th century, Western women knew a new freedom through birth control, which enabled women to plan their adult lives, often making way for both career and family. The movement had been started in the 1910s by US pioneering social reformer Margaret Sanger [38] and in the UK and internationally by Marie Stopes. Reproductive rights are rights relating to sexual reproduction and reproductive health.The idea of these rights were first discussed as a subset of human rights at the United Nation's 1968 International Conference on Human Rights. The sixteenth article of the Proclamation of Teheran states, "Parents have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and the spacing of their children."]Since then, reproductive rights have been established as human rights in international human rights documents, particularly with the ratification of the Convention to End Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the adoption of the Cairo Programme and the Beijing Platform.[48] Reproductive rights are often held to include the right to control one's reproductive functions, the right to access quality reproductive healthcare, the right to education and access in order to make reproductive choices free from coercion, discrimination, and violence. In 1946 the United Nations established a Commission on the Status of Women. Originally as the Section on the Status of Women, Human Rights Division, Department of Social Affairs, and now part of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). In 1948 the UN issued its Universal Declaration of Human Rights which protects "the equal rights of men and women", and addressed both the equality and equity issues. Over the course of the 20th century women took on a greater role in society. For example, many women served in government. In the U.S. Government some served as U.S. Senators and others as members of the U.S. Cabinet. Many women took advantage of opportunities to become educated. In the United States at the beginning of the 20th century less than 20 percent of all college degrees were earned by women. By the end of the century this figure had risen to about 50 percent. Since 1975 the UN has held a series of world conferences on women's issues, starting with the World Conference of the International Women's Year in Mexico City. These conferences created an international forum for women's rights, but also illustrated divisions between women of different cultures and the difficulties of attempting to apply principles universally. These are just a few things. I could go into wife purchasing, rape, being unable to buy/own/sell property/etc. These are just some examples of Western/Modern and English speaking cultures. I could go into women's rights in the Roman Empire, The Middle East, Scandinavian countries, etc.

Donna asks…

Goals of the Women's Rights Movement?

this probably sounds like a really stupid question but can you describe the goals of this movement?

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What started as a movement for equal rights and status for women, has been hijacked by both Socialist and Gay/Lesbian elements as a platform to push their agendas.-----Mostly stuff that can be "masked" as "women's issues" but twisted in a way that more promotes Socialistic "goals" and lesbian objectives as well. Of course, ANYONE who questions or objects to the above setup is summarily labeled as being somehow "Anti Women's rights". (old Socialist trick) This forces normal and non political women who are only in it for basic "equal rights" to have to help the Socialists and Lesbians with their causes too.--not to mention hurts the movement in general in the eyes of those who can see through the deception. (Note, I am NOT "anti Gay/Lesbian", but they should promote their stuff honestly via their own organizations, and not make things more difficult for women as a whole by distracting from the primary reasons for the "women's' movement")

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