Recent studies have shown that on average women pay almost 40% more than men for the same health insurance policies.
Why hasn't the U.S. made laws to make sure everything women do is equal to men? I hope that things will be equal when I grow up and inequality can have an effect on me.
Opponents of women's rights often ridiculed the group, characterizing feminists as immoral and "masculine."
I don't understand why it was so awful for women to be considered masculine.
Women were considered inferior to men
What started the belief that women are inferior to men?
The suffrage movement began in 1848
This entire movement started at Seneca Falls, in New York during 1848.
American women gained the right to vote on August 26, 1920, with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, after fighting one of the largest civil rights battles in United States history. The suffrage movement began in 1848 at a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, but women had been voicing their frustrations for generations, with the earliest publicly recorded declaration of women's rights dating back to the time of the American Revolution.
This article does a good job of showing how hard women worked to be able vote before the entire U.S. allowed it in 1920.