Women's Rights

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This paper discusses the long road travelled by many women's right activists. The paper contends that if it had not been for these women who laboriously paved the way to equality between the sexes, women would not be able to be in the kind of positions they hold in society today. The paper presents a brief overview of the work done by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, two of the greatest women to stand out, who organized the first women's rights meeting in 1848 and created the Declaration of Sentiments.

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"Today many women are achieving tasks that seemed unreachable nearly a century ago. Women are taking on laborous work, such as working in rail yards. They are also competing in sports that were mainly tagged for men only. A few examples of these sports include: basketball, baseball, snowboarding, surfing, football, etc. Women are now enrolling in the navy, army, marines; not just as nurses but as actual soldiers. They are taking active political roles in the United States government. Women are furthermore gaining bigger roles in big business as vice presidents and CEO's. In addition, women can not only expect to receive unbiased consideration by university admissions offices, but they are the majority gender of enrolled students. They can even earn their own income and not have to turn it over to their husbands. As strange as this sounds now, it was not always the case. America's women could not have achieved these roles with out the past experiences of other women who demanded change. "

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