Woman's Rights in United States

July 13, 1848 is the date every women in America should recognize and remember. It's the date the Womens rights movement began. Women in America and all over the world have fought many years to acheive equality between the sexes, to break down the barrier and prove to men that women are capable doing everything they are able to do. Mens attitudes towards women gaining their rights, prevailed them from trying to succeed in the movement. Due to the male dominance, men took control of womens lives and forced a certain role they should obey. Women then realized this and began to fight back to gain their life and rights from men. The struggles of this powerful movement symbolizes the strength and unity between women to fight for equal rights especially their voting rights. Women were once thought as incapable to do beyond the female stereotype. It has been thought that men were the main reason why women were held down. It goes back in 1777, when a law was passed that took aways all of womens rights. Women had the right to hold property in their own name, but with their husbands permission.

Most colonies based their laws on the English common law, which was then was turned into the Blackstone Commentaries. In this document it stated, "By marriage, the husband and wife are considered one person in the law. The being and legal existence of woman is taken away during their marriage, or is given to her husband under whose wing and protection she will perform everything". Men limited the opportunities that were provided to women by forcing fear upon us. They made women feel incopetant so they would fully depend on them. It was basically a struggle for power over one another. It wasnt just in America, this was happening region to region. Men made women feel as if they were locked up in a cage and forced to do what they said. Women couldnt take any of the abuse anymore and we decided to fight back.

Women began conventions and associations to get the word out to all. In these discussions and debates that occured they would refer to many issues. The man issues were women being able to vote. Women felt as if they should be able to choose a leader, since they will be living under their rule. Another issue is the restriction on the opportunties women have. One opportunity they were restricted, was the career field they wanted to work in. They weren't allowed to study medicone or law due to their restricted education also. So, even of they wanted to, they werent able to get the proper education to proceed in it anyway. Even if women were able to receive a full proper educations, no colleges or universities would accept them. If women did work, they werent even paid a fraction of what men earned. Even if a single women worked, they were unable to own land because women were not ...