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A 5 page paper on how woman in Florida and other parts of the country have become empowered to achieve success, power, and how they continue to promote and lobby for womens' rights. The writer also talks a little about the woman suffrage and the womens' rights movement.
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but really the name still fits and its been going on since the beginning of time. Much longer in fact than woman have even thought to complain about it.
This suffrage of women is the right of women to share on equal terms with men the political privileges afforded by representative government and, more particularly, to vote in
elections and to hold public office. Equal political rights for women have been advocated since antiquity. Under the autocratic forms of government that prevailed in ancient times and
under the feudal regimes of the middle ages, however, suffrage was so restricted, even among men, that enfranchisements of women never attained the status of a major political issue.
Conditions warranted organized woman-suffrage movements only after suffrage had been won by large, formerly disenfranchised groups of the male population as a consequence of the democratic revolutions of the 18th
and 19th centuries. The modern woman-suffrage movement originated in post revolutionary America. Even before the Revolution, American women participated in public life somewhat more freely than European
women. In 1647 a wealthy Maryland landholder named Margaret Brent attempted, boldly but unsuccessfully, to secure "place and voice" in the legislature of the colony. In Massachusetts women
property holders voted from 1691 to 1780. The Continental Congress debated the woman-suffrage movement question at length, deciding finally that the individual states should formulate voting rules. With
the widespread extension of the franchise to women, the womens rights movement broadened its scope during the 20th century. Among the right sought currently by feminist groups throughout
the world are the right to serve on juries, the right to retain earnings and property after marriage, the right to retain citizenship after marriage to an alien, and the
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