Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide, and which formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and feminist movement during the 20th century. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others they are ignored and suppressed.
The Women's Liberation Movement sought to unionise night cleaners, who worked in dangerous and low-paid jobs. Two strikes in the early 1970s resulted in greater awareness of the cleaners' (mainly women) working conditions. Unionisation was difficult, especially as cleaning work was increasingly privatised during the 1970s.
Thus splitting up the women's rights movement between two organizations; The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. Also during 1869, the Territory of Wyoming gave women the right over the age of 21 the right to vote, joining the Union as the first state ever to allow women voters.
The First Women's Rights Convention met in Seneca Falls, New York in July 1848. About 260 men and women met to discuss women's role in society. 100 men and women eventually signed the Declaration of Sentiments that declared women should have the right to vote. This started the women's suffrage movement.
Women in Politics: 1800-1850, a period of dislocation. Practically the movement drew its strength from the workplace as the primary place of association among men.. and the case for secular education. Their battle was for ascendancy, and the struggle to improve, progressively, the rights of women, could make one part of the liberal ideology.
Women's rights movement - Women's rights movement - Successes and failures: Despite such dissension in its leadership and ranks, the women’s rights movement achieved much in a short period of time. With the eventual backing of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1965), women gained access to jobs in every corner of the U.S. economy, and employers with long histories of.