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What was the Women's Rights movement about? 

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What was the Women's Rights movement about? 

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The women's rights movement was a social movement that pushed for equal rights and opportunities for women. It sought greater personal freedom for them. Women were not given certain rights and the movement pushed for these rights.

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What were the goals of the movement? What was it trying to achieve?

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What were the goals of the movement? What was it trying to achieve?

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There were many goals of the Women's Rights movement. Its broad goals included equal access to education and employment, equality within marriage, a married woman's right to her own property and wages, custody over her children, control over her own body, equal pay for equal work, an end to domestic violence, an end to sexual harassment, and sharing of responsibility for housework and child rearing. One of the biggest goals was women's suffrage.

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Specific leaders/People who influenced it

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Specific leaders/People who influenced it

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Some specific leaders in the Women's Rights movement were Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Ida B. Wells.

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There were different waves of the movement. The first wave was during the 19th and 20th centuries where they focused on women's right to vote. The second wave was during the 1960s and 1970s where they touched on politics, work, the family, and sexuality.

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The women’s rights movement had two major organizations in 1869: the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). Stanton and Anthony created the NWSA and worked to change federal law.

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Yes. Women's rights has been a prevalent issue for a while. The topic of their bodies, for instance with abortions, has been heavily debated even through now. Women have come out with sexual assault cases and tried to spread awareness of them with the Me Too movement as well.

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One key event was the Seneca Falls convention in 1848. The convention described their grievances which included that women couldn’t vote, had no voice in creating laws, and had no property rights. They also passed a series of resolutions calling for equal rights.

In 1913, the women's suffrage parade happened where more than 5,000 women marched in Washington the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration to push for the right to vote.

In 1920, the 19th amendment got passed.

In 1973, Roe v Wade got passed.

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Where was it focused? Was there a focus on a specific region of the country? Where did this key event take place? 

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Where was it focused? Was there a focus on a specific region of the country? Where did this key event take place? 

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The Women's Rights movement was primarily focused in the United States. The first women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. The women's suffrage parade was in Washington D.C.

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This movement started because women were frustrated with their lack of rights compared to men. They wanted to be treated as individuals, not dependents of men. They wanted more employment and education opportunities. Women wanted more rights in their life so that they could live freely.

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How did the government (both state & federal, if applicable) respond to it? This should include any key legislation, court cases, etc. 

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How did the government (both state & federal, if applicable) respond to it? This should include any key legislation, court cases, etc. 

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The government did not have a lot of resistance against women's rights. In 1920, they added the 19th amendment which allowed for women's suffrage. The government also passed the Voting Rights Act and the 13th amendment which allowed women of color to vote and not be treated as slaves. Title IX allowed women the right to not be discriminated against on the basis of sex for educational programs. The government also passed Roe v Wade which allowed women the freedom to do what they want regarding abortions.

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Evaluate how successful the movement was.

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Evaluate how successful the movement was.

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In my opinion, the movement was very successful. Many goals were accomplished such as the right to vote or the right to go to university. However, I think there is a lot more progress that could be made. Women can still be viewed as inferior, especially in the workplace.

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https://www.britannica.com/event/womens-movement

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13/#:~:text=U.S.%20Constitution%20%2D%20Thirteenth%20Amendment

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/voting-rights-act#:~:text=This%20act%20was%20signed%20into,as%20a%20prerequisite%20to%20voting.

https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lady/Womens-Rights/

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/womens-equality-day-celebrating-the-19th-amendments-impact-on-reproductive-health-and-rights/

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Prologue to a social movement

In the aftermath of World War II, the lives of women in developed countries changed dramatically. Household technology eased the burdens of homemaking, life expectancies increased dramatically, and the growth of the service sector opened up thousands of jobs not dependent on physical strength. Despite these socioeconomic transformations, cultural attitudes (especially concerning women's work) and legal precedents still reinforced sexual inequalities. An articulate account of the oppressive effects of prevailing notions of femininity appeared in Le Deuxième Sexe (1949; The Second Sex), by the French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. It became a worldwide best seller and raised feminist consciousness by stressing that liberation for women was liberation for men too.

The first public indication that change was imminent came with women's reaction to the 1963 publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. Friedan spoke of the problem that "lay buried, unspoken" in the mind of the suburban housewife: utter boredom and lack of fulfillment. Women who had been told that they had it all-nice houses, lovely children, responsible husbands-were deadened by domesticity, she said, and they were too socially conditioned to recognize their own desperation. The Feminine Mystique was an immediate best seller. Friedan had struck a chord.

Reformers and revolutionaries

Initially, women energized by Friedan's book joined with government leaders and union representatives who had been lobbying the federal government for equal pay and for protection against employment discrimination. By June 1966 they had concluded that polite requests were insufficient. They would need their own national pressure group-a women's equivalent of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). With this, the National Organization for Women (NOW) was born.

The organization was not an instant success. By the end of its second year, NOW had just 1,035 members and was racked by ideological divisions. When the group tried to write a Bill of Rights for Women, it found consensus on six measures essential to ensuring women's equality: enforcement of laws banning employment discrimination; maternity leave rights; child-care centres that could enable mothers to work; tax deductions for child-care expenses; equal and unsegregated education; and equal job-training opportunities for poor women.

Two other measures stirred enormous controversy: one demanded immediate passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution (to ensure equality of rights, regardless of sex), and the other demanded greater access to contraception and abortion. When NOW threw its support behind passage of the ERA, the United Auto Workers union-which had been providing NOW with office space-withdrew its support, because the ERA would effectively prohibit protective labour legislation for women. When some NOW members called for repeal of all abortion laws, other members left the fledgling organization, convinced that this latest action would undermine their struggles against economic and legal discrimination.

NOW's membership was also siphoned off from the left. Impatient with a top-heavy traditional organization, activists in New York City, where half of NOW's membership was located, walked out. Over the next two years, as NOW struggled to establish itself as a national organization, more radical women's groups were formed by female antiwar, civil rights, and leftist activists who had grown disgusted by the New Left's refusal to address women's concerns. Ironically, sexist attitudes had pervaded 1960s radical politics, with some women being exploited or treated unequally within those movements. In 1964, for example, when a woman's resolution was brought up at a Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC) conference, Stokely Carmichael flippantly cut off all debate: "The only position for women in SNCC is prone."

While NOW focused on issues of women's rights, the more radical groups pursued the broader themes of women's liberation. Although they lacked the kind of coherent national structure NOW had formed, liberation groups sprang up in Chicago, Toronto, Seattle, Detroit, and elsewhere. Suddenly, the women's liberation movement was everywhere-and nowhere. It had no officers, no mailing address, no printed agenda. What it did have was attitude. In September 1968 activists converged on Atlantic City, New Jersey, to protest the image of womanhood conveyed by the Miss America Pageant. In February 1969 one of the most radical liberation groups, the Redstockings, published its principles as "The Bitch Manifesto." Based in New York City, the Redstockings penned the movement's first analysis of the politics of housework, held the first public speak-out on abortion, and helped to develop the concept of "consciousness-raising" groups-rap sessions to unravel how sexism might have coloured their lives. The Redstockings also held speak-outs on rape to focus national attention on the problem of violence against women, including domestic violence.

Responding to these diverse interests, NOW called the Congress to Unite Women, which drew more than 500 feminists to New York City in November 1969. The meeting was meant to establish common ground between the radical and moderate wings of the women's rights movement, but it was an impossible task. Well-dressed professionals convinced that women needed to reason with men could not unite with wild-haired radicals whose New Left experience had soured them on polite discourse with "the enemy." NOW's leadership seemed more comfortable lobbying politicians in Washington or corresponding with NASA about the exclusion of women from the astronaut program, while the young upstarts preferred disrupting legislative committee hearings. NOW leaders were looking for reform. The more radical women were plotting a revolution.

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Women's rights movement | Definition, Leaders, Overview, History, & Facts

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Women's rights movement, diverse social movement, largely based in the United States, that in the 1960s and '70s sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women. It coincided with and is recognized as part of the 'second wave' of feminism.