AMERICAN HISTORY

American History: Women's Movement

American History: Women's Movement

Introduction

A woman considered inferior to man. Man given most wondrous place in the society, whereas women considered less valuable. Every third woman worldwide face and experience violence in her life because of the reason that she is a woman. Health sector is the place where the violence against women is the most and at its maximum. United States after Portugal and Poland have 41st rank for maternal mortality. The health impacts also include poverty and injustice. 1979 marked the year for bringing up a legal treaty known as Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which, sadly has been by ratified by world's eight governments which also include US (Bowels, 2011).

World conference on human rights in 1993 acknowledged human rights of women. After two years, the Fourth World Conference attended by Lady Hillary Clinton calling women's rights equivalent to human rights. No international peace can be achieved unless and until women's rights are not secured, and they are not provided with a fair and peaceful life. Healthy women with peace at mind can become potential productive workers and active participants in the running affairs of the country if their rights are women. Healthy and empowered women can spread peace by raising and educating children. These are steps which go in favor of rights' fulfillment of women as well as of the society because an educated and peaceful woman can spread it to the children accordingly and in the long run would contribute in growth of social economies (Bowels, 2011).

Despite the fact that the U.S. has traditionally belonged to the modern countries of Western democracy, an American woman for a long time did not have equal rights with men. As a result, in the XIX-XX centuries problem of women's emancipation has become one of the leaders in American society: that is when most women first announced its interest, challenging conventional ideas about the traditional purpose of a "weak" sex as a homemaker. They began to fight for civil and political liberties by trying to overcome centuries of legal and ideological barriers that prevented the approval of their independent status in society. The struggle for equal rights for women took place in the modernization of social and economic structures associated with the formation of the foundations of industrial society. The dramatic social changes could not affect the status of women, causing an increase in their activity (Bowels, 2011).

Discussion

When the 19th century was ending, and then started the rising status of women due to Industrial Revolution. It favored the women because more jobs were available and women filled the jobs. Women preferred because they were paid less also overworked. The home and workplace separated which was disliked by men. To keep women out of this, men started labeling jobs as specifically male jobs treating them as cannot be done by women (Amnesty International USA, 2007).

The second aspect included the growth of technologies. With more science and machines coming up, women got a chance to take ...