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Historical Event
A parallel circumstance in history can be seen in the unequal rights and partiality against women across the world but mainly in America. Women have always been looked down upon by men ever since civilization was created. This can be credited to a number of things but more importantly, how this prejudice has affected them is what we should focus on. In ancient times women inferred certain roles in soceity and this was accepted for many many years but this would eventually change. The job of the woman was to uphold the house and care for the children and family, more specifically cook, clean, wash, sew etc.. Women were expected to do these domestic chores and it was not questioned until the middle 19th century.

Feminisim is the social movement that entails equal rights for all, mainly women. Women's rights dates first important expression was Mary Wollstonecraft's //A Vindication of the Rights of Woman// (1792). The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, convened by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and others, called for full legal equality with men, including full educational opportunity and equal compensation; thereafter the woman suffrage movement began to gather momentum. American women gained the right to vote by constitutional amendment in 1920, but their participation in the workplace remained limited, and prevailing notions tended to confine women to the home. Then in 1923 women in the labor force grew to 23% from 6% in 1900. This substantial jump led to the attitude change in women about work and their place in society. This shift caused many women to become more career oriented which also brought more education into the equation. With a more educated population, leaders were emerging and a new era was brewing, the era of equal rights of women!

Women have fought a similar battle compared to Blacks and this should not go unnoticed. Their fight for respect and equality can be seen in the African Americans battles throughout its duration.

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