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Bookmark or Share- Women’s Rights 101: History, Examples, ActivistsWomen’s rights are the political, legal, economic and social rights granted to women. Rights cover an array of issues such as the right to vote, the right to equal education, the right to equal pay for equal work, reproductive rights and freedom of movement.
- Gender equality and women’s rights | OHCHRWe promote women and girls’ equal enjoyment of all human rights, including freedom from violence, sexual and reproductive rights, access to justice, socio-economic equality, and participation in decision-making.
- Women’s Suffrage ‑ The U.S. Movement, Leaders & 19th Amendment | HISTORYThe women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the ...
- women’s rights movement - Encyclopedia BritannicaWomen’s rights movement, diverse social movement, largely based in the United States, that in the 1960s and ’70s sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women. It coincided with and is recognized as part of the ‘second wave’ of feminism.
- Timeline: The Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. - U.S. News & World ...1777 – All states pass laws which take away women's right to vote. 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman to receive a patent, for a method of weaving straw with silk. 1839 – The first state...
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