women's rights

     

The term women’s rights refers to the freeoms inherently possessed by women and girls of all ages, which may be institutionalized, ignored or suppressed by law, custom, and behavior in a particular society. These liberties are grouped together and differentiated from broader notions of human rights because they often differ from the freedoms inherently possessed by or recognized for men and boys, and because activism surrounding this issue claims an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women.

Trivia about women's rights

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, which fought for these