Women's Rights

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This paper discusses how issues of concern to women have been in the forefront of national debate for more than two decades. It examines how the feminist movement has followed the same general course as the civil rights movement, beginning with organization and passing through various periods of radicalization and retrenchment as obstacles were overcome, successes achieved, and new challenges discovered. It shows how women's rights remain important in the United States and how they are even more important in other areas of the world where women are given second-class status and are still viewed as property and not individual human beings. In much of the world, the fight will be much longer and much harder because of long-standing traditions regarding women and because there is more deference given to tradition, authority, and religion.

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"The Women's Movement revived as a major force in the 1960s. More and more women had been entering the job market in the years since World War II. This trend was noted by 1960, but the size of the trend was underestimated. By the mid-1970s, women had entered the job market at rates not expected to be reached until the mid-1980s, and it was reported then that nearly 48 percent of American women over sixteen years of age either worked or wanted a job. Numerous reasons were given for this, including a growing number of young single women looking for their first jobs, newly divorced women with little or no income from their former husbands, women whose husbands did not earn enough so that the family needed a second salary, and women from higher income families who had a desire for broader horizons as a primary reason for working."

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