By: Shyla
Women's rights started about the 18th century. During that time, they didn't have any rights. By 1970 most women throughout the world gained many rights according to law, in fact all political, economic, and social equality with men remained the same like both men and women could have a job. England, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a Vindication of the rights of women (1792) the first major modern feminist work. It's demands for equality made it unacceptable at that time they thought that women shouldn't have the same rights as men.
1848 more than 100 people held the first women's rights convention, at Seneca Falls, New York. It was led by Lucretia Mott and the Feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The feminists demanded equal rights, including voting.
In the late 1960's and 1970's women formed women rights groups like the National Organization for Women (or NOW). American women have made many gains in the last 10 years, for example being able to vote during the year 1946. They could also hold public office by 1946. In 1975 the United Nations launched a Decade for women program, and major conferences were held in 1975, 1980, and 1985.
Everywhere else in the world , the women's rights movement has made some progress. More than 90 percent of the nations, women can vote and hold public office. Aided by the United Nations commission on the status of women.Today women have women rights groups, but they also have the rights to vote hold public office, and they have the same rights as men.
Sources: Encarta 1996 Encyclopedia
