Women's Right Movement 1

Reflection on the Women's Rights Movement

Kayla Kingdon
Salt lake community college

The event I wrote about was the Women's Rights Movement. It was a 72 year fight for the right
to vote for women. This began after it became legal for African Americans to vote. This is
relevant today because if women were never able to vote they would have lived in a society run
by men. The interests and needs of women would go ignored.
Women all around the world still face oppression which makes this event extremely relevant
today even if we don't experience it in America. Women in other countries face it every day.
I think a good example of this is modern times is abortion. As women we have a right to decide
what to do with our bodies. Womens reproductive rights. Whether or not women can
terminate pregnancies is still controversial twenty-five years after the Supreme Court ruling in
Roe v. Wade affirmed womens choice during the first two trimesters. (History of the Womens
Rights Movement) Abortion is a big topic for modern day women rights activists.

I realized that women never had the right to vote but I didn't realize that it wasn't that long ago
that it was legalized. The world we live in still treats women differently than it treats men.
It made me see that world we live in is still mostly run by men. I wonder if this is because
women never did resort to violence. Would the men in government positions have taken women
more seriously if they had physically fought for equal rights? Would it have taken less time if
they would have resorted to violence? But again that's what makes this movement so exy
ordinary. They did win and without using force.
We are growing as a nation but this assignment has me realize that the surround world I live in
still is full of oppression.

The events in this essays are connected to many concepts and ideas in American history.
Women's rights have hundreds of years of history, it's a popular topic. Women are proving that
they are just as strong and capable as men.
In the world of work, large numbers of women have entered the professions, the trades, and
businesses of every kind. We have opened the ranks of the clergy, the military, the newsroom.
More than three million women now work in occupations considered nontraditional until very
recently.(History of the Womens Rights Movement)
Women's rights is a movement that has been around for a very long time. We have come a long
way but there's still a lot to do before the world truly sees men and women as equal.

Sources:
History of the Womens Rights Movement
http://www.nwhp.org/resources/womens-rights-movement/history-of-the-womens-rights-
movement/