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  • Essay / The Women's Liberation Movement - 1111

    Starting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, women began to express their opinions and desires for the right to vote. The women's suffrage movement paved the way for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted women this right. The women's suffrage movement launched an equal rights movement for women that continued to promote equal opportunities for women throughout the country. The Women's Liberation Movement created greater opportunities, demanded respect, and paved the way for women's entry into the workforce, initiated by the right to vote and energized in the late 1950s. Women's Liberation Movement was idealized from civil rights. Movement; it was based on the elimination of discriminatory practices and sexist attitudes (Freeman, 1995). Although by the 1960s women made up a third of the workforce, despite the propaganda surrounding the movement, women were still told to "go home." However, the movement continued to grow and developed a new attitude in the 1970s. The movement was led by a new generation that was younger and more educated in politics and social action. These young women not only challenged gender role expectations, but also led the feminist agenda to liberate women from oppression and male authority and redistribute power and social good among gender (Baumgardner and Richards, 2000). In just a few decades, the women's Liberation Movement changed typical gender roles that were previously never challenged or questioned. As women, those of us who identified as feminists rebelled against the status quo and redefined what it means to be a strong, powerful woman. But in the middle of the article......tisfem.htmBidgood, J. (April 8, 2014). In the United States, the number of stay-at-home mothers is increasing. The New York Times. Retrieved April 16, 2014 from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/us/number-of-stay-at-home-mothers-in-us-rises.html?_r=0Dixon, M. . (1977). The rise and demise of women's liberation: a class analysis. Archives of Marlene Dixon, retrieved April 12, 2014 from the Chicago Women's Liberation Union database. Glass, A. I despise young women with husbands and children and I'm not sorry. Catalog of thoughts. Retrieved April 16, 2014 from http://thoughtcatalog.com/amy-glass/2014/01/i-look-down-on-young-women-with-husbands-and-kids-and-im-not-sorry/ Shiono, P. and Quinn, L.S. (1994). Epidemiology of divorce. Children and divorce, 4. Retrieved April 17, 2014 from http://futureofchildren.org/publications/journals/article/index.xml?journalid=63&articleid=408§ionid=2781