Women’s rights

1. Women’s rights

2. Table of Contents • Title page • Women’s rights • Traditional role of women • Time line • Education of women • Women at work • Politics • The vote

3. Women's Rights • Throughout history women had fewer legal rights and opportunities than men. Wifehood and motherhood were regarded as women’s most significant professions. In the 20th century women in most nations won the right to vote and increased their educational and job opportunities. They fought for and accomplished a reevaluation of traditional views of their role in society.

4. Traditional Roles of Women • The traditional roles: • House wife • Mother • Limited education • No political influence Women were prisoners in their own homes.

5. Time line: • Time line of women’s battles: • 1848- Seneca Fall, a meeting for women’s rights • 1920’s- women won the right to vote • 1930’s- Frances Perkins led the way for women in politics • 1940’s- more women were attending college • 1960’s- introduction of Birth control, The equal pay act, civil rights act discouraging and outlawing sex discrimination.

6. The Education of Women: • American girls learn to read and write at the Dame schools. They could attend the Masters schools for Boys when there was room. • The end of the 19th century--female students had increased greatly • In 1870--estimated 1/5 of resident college and university students were women. • By 1990 it had increased more than 1/3. • Women--19% of all undergraduate college degrees in beginning of the 20th century.

7. Women at Work: • The 19th and 20th century– Medical profession was suitable work for women • 1890- Women made up 5% of total doctors in the US. • 1980-17% • 1930—2% of women were lawyers and judges. • 1989– 22% • 1980’s– twice as many women then men taught in school • World war 2- women served as secretaries and nurses

8. Politics • 1920- had the right to vote • 1917- Jeanette Rankin-first member of the US house of Representatives • 1968- Shirly Chisholm- first black woman elected to the House of Rep. • 1990- Antonia Novello-Hispanic for surgeon general • 1992- Poland’s first female prime minister

9. The Vote • The first women’s rights convention took place in N.Y. in 1848. The declaration that emerged came from the Declaration of Independence. • Claimed that “all men and women are created equal

10. Work Cited • Britannica online. “women’s rights.” 2002. • Student Resource Center. “Women’s rights on agenda.” Fiedler, Anne Akia. IC publications Ltd. 1999. • MSN. “Women’s rights.” Microsoft Corporation. 2001. • Ask Jeeves. “Women’s history in America.” 1994. • HistoryChannel.com. Feminism. Columbia University press. 2000.