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A 6 page paper which examines the process that Latino women have gone through in the United States from a position involving culture and discrimination. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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society. They have had to deal with their own patriarchal culture, as well as that of the United States in relationship to legal restrictions and social restrictions. The following paper
examines the condition of Latino women as it involves acculturation, legal struggles, and struggling with organizations for greater recognition. Latino Women and Latinos in America In relationship to
legal discriminations set against Latino women in the history of the country their rights have generally been the same as women in general. Unlike African American women, they did not
have to wait until their particular race gained legal rights but rather had to wait until their gender was provided with those rights. In understanding this perspective and reality better
we look at the history of womens legal rights in the nation. "During the early history of the United States, a man virtually
owned his wife and children as he did his material possessions" (Womens International Center). While this did not really involve any Latino women at the time, it was a pervasive
attitude of much of America for many decades to come and thus influenced how women were legally treated. Then, during the "19th century, women began working outside their homes in
large numbers, notably in textile mills and garment shops" and no rights regarding the working conditions really solidly existed in the United States until around 1910 (Womens International Center). While
much of the textile mills and factories were on the East coast, where very few, if any, Latino women worked or lived, the laws affected the nation and all women.
It was not really until the 1960s when many federal laws improved the position of women (Womens International Center). "The Equal Pay
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