outline for womens rights
Women's Rights Outline
Introduction A. Background information Did you always think women and men always shared the same rights as today? B. Thesis Statement: Women's rights need to be equal with men
I. Women were always seen as the weaker sex A. Unable to perform work 1. Weaker than men and squeamish 2. Less educated than men. B. Types of jobs 1. Colonial America- became seamstresses or kept boarding houses. 2. Egypt-made families clothes, prepared food (grinding grain to flour to make bread) 3. Ancient Israel-some were businesswomen, make clothes for family and to sell to merchants 4. Greece- help husbands with farm work, and spin/weave cloth for clothes 5. Rome-allowed to inherit property and ran business, helped in trading (perfumery, & silver working) priestesses, midwives, or hairdressers, some female doctors yet most jobs were done by men. C. Domestic Skills-easier 1. Since women were generally weaker, they were stuck at home doing easier jobs 2. Stayed at home making food for their hard-working husbands
II. Seen as property/objects by men. A. Had to obey their husband. 1. 1839- 1st state (Mississippi) granted women right to hold property in their own name with husband's permission 2. 1769-Blackstone Commentaries said they by marriage, husband and wife were one person in law and legal existance of women was suspended during marriage. 3. Hinduism-required obidience of women towards men, and had to walk behind husbands, did not own property, and widows couldn't remarry. B. Didn't have much freedom. 1. Only "true"women were the ones that stayed at home and took care of family 2. Husbands controlled where they were allowed to work/wages.
III. Women started to get together to fight for equality. A. Started getting together. 1. 1848-group of abolitionist activists (mostly women) gathered at Seneca Falls, New York to discuss women's rights and
Introduction A. Background information Did you always think women and men always shared the same rights as today? B. Thesis Statement: Women's rights need to be equal with men
I. Women were always seen as the weaker sex A. Unable to perform work 1. Weaker than men and squeamish 2. Less educated than men. B. Types of jobs 1. Colonial America- became seamstresses or kept boarding houses. 2. Egypt-made families clothes, prepared food (grinding grain to flour to make bread) 3. Ancient Israel-some were businesswomen, make clothes for family and to sell to merchants 4. Greece- help husbands with farm work, and spin/weave cloth for clothes 5. Rome-allowed to inherit property and ran business, helped in trading (perfumery, & silver working) priestesses, midwives, or hairdressers, some female doctors yet most jobs were done by men. C. Domestic Skills-easier 1. Since women were generally weaker, they were stuck at home doing easier jobs 2. Stayed at home making food for their hard-working husbands
II. Seen as property/objects by men. A. Had to obey their husband. 1. 1839- 1st state (Mississippi) granted women right to hold property in their own name with husband's permission 2. 1769-Blackstone Commentaries said they by marriage, husband and wife were one person in law and legal existance of women was suspended during marriage. 3. Hinduism-required obidience of women towards men, and had to walk behind husbands, did not own property, and widows couldn't remarry. B. Didn't have much freedom. 1. Only "true"women were the ones that stayed at home and took care of family 2. Husbands controlled where they were allowed to work/wages.
III. Women started to get together to fight for equality. A. Started getting together. 1. 1848-group of abolitionist activists (mostly women) gathered at Seneca Falls, New York to discuss women's rights and