History of feminism

 The fight for equal rights of women in the United States began at the turn of the 19th century and materialized as growth from the more broad-reaching fight against social reform, especially abolitionism and temperance. The date is generally believed to be the birth date of the women's organized struggle for their rights at the call of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, in 1848 the Seneca Falls Convention produced a declaration listing demands, of which suffrage or equalities based on gender was one of them. It really was a movement that took off only in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with such suffragists as Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul, who sought political rights for women. Their eventual work of all this labor was the 19th Amendment to the Constitution passed in 1920, giving women the right to vote.

From then on, the emphasis became total social, economic, and legal equality. The 1960s and the 1970s were characterized by second-wave feminism, which fought against discrimination at work, for the right of the woman to reproduce, and, finally, by gender roles. The most landmark legislation included a prohibition against sex discrimination in education with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 as well as the Equal Pay Act of 1963. An attempt was also made in these years to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, though it did not help ratification. Over the next decades, this movement would grow to encompass the different issues faced by women of other races, classes, and sexual orientations. Gains have indeed been achieved, but ongoing struggles concerning reproductive rights, equal pay, and workplace protections continue to frame the course of the modern women's rights movement.