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Womens Rights Vote Place In Public Offices And Millitary Education


Womens rights highlights the freedom that is available to the women as well as girls belonging to all age groups. They might have been deprived of it by the institutions, laws or the customs that are prevailing in the society. It is very much different from human rights that refers to the rights that are basically possessed by the male part of the society. Many campaigns are being organised to get the women similar rights that are available to a man in recent times.

The issues that are popularly discussed as a part of womens rights are directed towards the right to bodily integrity and autonomy, vote, place in public offices, fair wages, education, to have marital, parental and religious rights, power to provide services in the military section as well as become the owner of properties and entrance into legally made contracts.

The Reformation that took place during the 16th century, helped women to get themselves heard and come up with their talents like the English writers namely Jane Anger, Aemilia Lanyer as well as the prophetess Anna Trapnell. Queen Elizabeth I was the bold lady, who made a display of her leadership qualities and stood up amongst the women mass working towards the womens rights. She also played an important role in promoting the need for education of women.

The popular feminist writer during the Age of Enlightenment was Mary Wollstonecraft. In her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman he made it clear that the way women are brought up and their educational background is a hurdle to their success and dominating force towards their limited performance and non availability of womens rights.

The first scientific society for women was established in the year 1785 in Middelburg, which is located south of Holland. The demands for the womens rights to vote were first sought in the territories of Wyoming in 1869 and in Utah in 1870. The right to vote came to women on national level only after the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution got ratification in 1920.

In the year 1848 the first Women's Rights Convention was organised in Seneca Fall, NY and in 1849, women were allowed to practice medicine with Elizabeth Blackwell as the first lady to get the medical degree in the United States. Further in the year 1852, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton together marked the creation of the Women's New York Temperance society.

The reproductive rights as part of womens rights highlighted the right that a woman could keep a control on her own reproductive functions. She had complete rights to get hold of the best reproductive healthcare facilities and the liberty to get educated to be able to make choices relating to reproduction that is unaffected by any kind of discrimination or force. Womens rights







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Womens Rights Vote Place In Public Offices And Millitary Education was written on December 29, 2007. Posted in Women's Issues and Tagged Women's Issues.












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