Essay - This Paper Focuses on the Status of Women in the...

This paper focuses on the status of women in the pre and post revoluti*****ary days. The ***** also touches upon the current ***** of ***** to show how the changes that took place in the 19th century f*****ally affected the life ***** American women in ***** 20th century.

THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN AMERICA IN THE 17TH AND 19TH CENTURIES

Women in the United States have worked hard to achieve some sort of equality to their male counterparts ***** every field of activity. Social economic ***** political conditions have undergone a massive change since the country attained freedom in 1776. Women were a significantly oppressed section of the society in ***** 17th and 18th centuries, there ***** no vot*****g rights for them and they were kept out of armed forces and other businesses. This resulted in lack ***** eco*****mic resources for *****, which further lowered ***** position in the *****, as they had to depend on their husbands, fathers or br*****s for financial support. ***** has changed ***** *****day as most women are seen working side-by-side men in almost every field. They are ***** play*****g an important role in armed ***** and large corporati*****s but we must not *****get that women struggled for more than a century to reach their ***** status in the ***** States. Women around the world face problems because of the ********** ***** they are weaker ***** thus can***** perform many of the tasks that men can and because of biological differences, which give ***** more physical strength, women have ***** face discrimination in many fields. While it is a f*****ct that men are physically stronger, this doesn't mean they are ********** superior to women in any way, thus discrimination against women at workplace or other areas is *****tally unfair. Even in the fields where physical strength ***** required, it would be unjust not to ***** women a chance to prove their worth. But this ***** *****en happening for a long time in every society, discrimin*****tion against women is what resulted in women ***** movement in different parts ***** the world. A movement for rights is al*****s meant ***** the disadvantaged or underprivileged. Black rights movement ***** place because this community was denied their basic rights because of the col***** of their skin. In the same manner women had ***** fight for their rights because ***** were refused the same because of their supposedly ***** gender.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most ***** were confined to the four walls ***** their houses ***** they were ***** out of important fields including politics and economics. The only women to ***** any influence in politics ***** wives of men in ***** and ***** s*****s just how minimal was their role in country's affairs. Even in literary fields, women were supposed to write using male pseudonyms, as publishers would completely refuse to work with a female writer. This changed significantly during the nineteenth century as more and ***** women began making *****ir mark on the literary scene. *****