women's rights movement
Suffrage and beyond
The women's rights movement is the ongoing effort to achieve legal, social, and economic equality for women.
Beginning formally in the mid-nineteenth century with campaigns for voting rights and property ownership, it has expanded to address workplace discrimination, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, and pay equity.
The women's rights movement gained momentum after World War II.
- Title IXFederal educational equity law
- suffragetteMilitant women's voting advocate
- protestsPublic expressions of opposition
- gender pay gapIncome inequality between sexes
- body autonomyControl over one's physicality
bodily autonomy · second-wave feminism · first-wave feminism · intersectionality · maternity leave · feminist literature · feminism · birth control · domestic violence · Roe v. Wade · sexual harassment · workplace discrimination · me too · marches · child marriage · equal pay · wage gap · Sojourner Truth
- Swedish HistoryViking Age, Great Northern War, Thirty Years War, constitutional monarchy, Peace of Westphalia
women's rights movementanti-feminism
Opposition to gender equality
male supremacy · misogyny · patriarchy · male chauvinism · sexism
women's rights movementstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
traditionalism · conservatism · reaction · backlash · Victorian values
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