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Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others ...
The timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. The changes include actual law reforms, as well as other formal changes (e.g., reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents ).
The 2017 Women's March at that time was the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, which was surpassed three years later by the George Floyd protests. In the United States, the Women's March on Washington event drew in around 470,000 people, while over an estimated 3,267,134 and 5,246,670 people attended in over 408 rallies.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 January 2025. Series of political campaigns for reforms on feminist issues Part of a series on Feminism History Feminist history History of feminism Women's history American British Canadian German Waves First Second Third Fourth Timelines Women's suffrage Muslim countries US Other women's rights ...
United States: The Cable Act of 1922 (ch. 411, 42 Stat. 1021, "Married Women's Independent Nationality Act") was a United States federal law that reversed former immigration laws regarding marriage. (It is also known as the Married Women's Citizenship Act or the Women's Citizenship Act).
Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674106539. Echols, Alice (1990). Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975. Rosen, Ruth (2006). The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. Penguin Publishing. ISBN 0670814628
Some key moments in women's history include the suffrage movement, which fought for women's right to vote; the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, [7] which brought attention to issues such as reproductive rights and workplace discrimination; and the #MeToo movement, which has drawn attention to the prevalence of sexual harassment and ...
The women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.