some notes on women progession

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

A woman is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights". Women are typically capable of giving birth from puberty onwards, though older women who have gone through menopause and some intersex women cannot. Throughout history women have assumed various social roles in occupation. In some cultures, a majority of women have adopted specific appearances, such as those regulated by dress codes.

The quality of man has been one of the most pursued activities throughout human history. Mankind has made several mistakes during this long quest for a prejudice-free society. However, in order for humans to continue evolving in the making of ourselves as better, we must look back at these mistakes and learn from them. Women's suffrage is an applicable topic when discussing this. If we look back upon the injustices that women faced, then perhaps we can look ahead and spare ourselves from serving injustices like these to anyone again.
Society has always placed a second-class rank upon women. However, this issue is not nearly as severe as it always has been. During the late 19th century and the early portion of the 20th century, women were placed in an inferior position to men.
Society's view on women during the early 1900's was one of inferiority. Women's role in society was seen as less important than that of a man's. Society felt like women were not capable of making as good of a decision as men were.. Proof of injustices such as women's denial of their right to vote, their right in the workplace, and their right in politics were just a few of examples which shows the inequalities women faced during that time.. There was not much difference between the viewpoints of those internationally.

however as time passed,laws favoring women was enforced.According laws such as ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities - Right's of Women, Equal Rights Amendment, Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978,State Abortion Laws (U.S.),U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - Equal Pay Act of 1963, women are now given the same opportunity like men.
Thus there is less discrimination concerning education and job opportunities.

Women have access education:
Girls today, women tomorrow, leaders in future.
Women had it difficult in the mid-1800s to early 1900s. There was a difference in the treatment of men and women then. Married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law. Women were not even allowed to vote until August 1920. They were not allowed to enter professions such as medicine or law. There were no chances of women getting an education then because no college or university would accept a female with only a few exceptions. Women were not allowed to participate in the affairs of the church. They thought they were totally dependent on men.

Then the first Women's Rights Convention was held on July nineteenth and twentieth in 1848. The convention was assembled as planned, and over the two days of discussion, the Declaration of Sentiments and twelve resolutions...Young women are given the chance to be educated.
Education

The educational gender gap in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries has been reduced over the last 30 years. Younger women today are far more likely to have completed a tertiary qualification: in 19 of the 30 OECD countries, more than twice as many women aged 25 to 34 have completed tertiary education than have women aged 55 to 64. In 21 of 27 OECD countries with comparable data, the number of women graduating from university-level programmes is equal to or exceeds that of men. 15-year-old girls tend to show much higher expectations for their careers than boys of the same age.
A female biologist weighs a desert tortoise before release.

While women account for more than half of university graduates in several OECD countries, they receive only 30% of tertiary degrees granted in science and engineering fields, and women account for only 25% to 35% of researchers in most OECD countries.[77]

There is a common misconception that women have still not advanced in achieving academic degrees. According to Margaret Rossiter, a historian of science, women now earn 54 percent of all bachelor's degrees in the United States. However, although there are more women holding bachelors degrees than men, as the level of education increases, the more men tend to fit the statistics instead of women. At the graduate level, women fill 40 percent of the doctorate degrees (31 percent of them being in engineering).[78]

While to this day women are studying at prestigious universities at the same rate as men, they are not being given the same chance to join faculty. Sociologist Harriet Zuckerman has observed that the more prestigious an institute is, the more difficult and time consuming it will be for women to obtain a faculty position there. In 1989, Harvard University tenured its first woman in chemistry, Cynthia Friend, and in 1992 its first woman in physics, Melissa Franklin. She also observed that women were more likely to hold their first professional positions as instructors and lecturers while men are more likely to work first in tenure positions. According to Smith and Tang, as of 1989, 65 percent of men and only 40 percent of women held tenured positions and only 29 percent of all scientists and engineers employed as assistant professors in four-year colleges and universities were women.[79]
Jobs

In 1992, women earned 9 percent of the Ph.D.'s awarded in engineering but only one percent made it to become a professor. In 1995, 11 percent of professors in science and engineering were women. In relation, only 311 deans of engineering schools were women, which is less than 1 percent of the total. Even in psychology, a degree in which women earn the majority of Ph.D.'s, they hold a significant amount of fewer tenured positions, roughly 19 percent in 1994.

Politics have been traditionally dominated by men; and women today continue to be under-represented in government in most countries. On October 2013, the global average of women in national assemblies was 21.5%.[82]Suffrage is the civil right to vote. Women's suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually, first at state and local levels, starting in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and in 1920 women in the US received universal vote, with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Some Western countries were slow to allow women to vote; notably Switzerland, where women gained the right to vote in federal elections in 1971, and in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden women were granted the right to vote on local issues only in 1991, when the canton was forced to do so by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland; and Liechtenstein, in 1984, through the Liechtenstein women's suffrage referendum, 1984.

For all of history, women have stood behind men as companions and supporters. Women have been treated as if they were politically and socially inferior; property of the men they married. Only in the last hundred years have restrictions on women been lifted. Subdued by men for thousands of years, early modern feminist movements were met with animosity.The rapid development of society helps them gain good and complete education.
There is less sexual harassment in schools and other educational institutions.... Maternal health is an important part of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Worldwide, one woman dies every 90 seconds in pregnancy or childbirth - more than 350,000 women each year. The vast majority of these deaths are preventable. Lack of education about pregnancy or access to trained caregivers for ante-natal care and assisted delivery are driven by gender–based discrimination. In addition, violence against women increases during pregnancy. Amnesty International is campaigning on maternal health in five countries with disproportionately high rates of poor maternal health outcomes, including the United States. All women have the right to accessible, affordable and adequate health care that takes into account their cultural needs. They have the right to access health care without discrimination. And they have the right to health care that responds to their particular needs as women. Sexual and reproductive health encompasses a range of prevention and treatment services. Examples include: accurate information about HIV transmission; the ability to choose whether and when to get pregnant; response to violence against women; and services for sexually transmitted infections and reproductive tract illnesses, such as cervical cancer. Access to these services is part and parcel to the universal right to the highest attainable standard of health, yet, because these services are basic care only for women and girls, their protection requires special attention.

On the 30th anniversary of CEDAW Inter Press Service (IPS) listed a number of benefits the women’s right treaty has provided around the world, for example:
• Morocco gave women greater equality and protection of their human rights within marriage and divorce by passing a new family code in 2004
• India has accepted legal obligations to eliminate discrimination against women and outlawed sexual harassment in the workplace
• In Cameroon, the Convention is applied in local courts and groundbreaking decisions on gender equality are being made by the country’s high courts
• And the CEDAW committee in Austria decided two complaints against Austria concerning domestic violence in 2007
• UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also noted that within the UN itself, the number of women in senior posts has increased by 40 percent
• “The Convention has been used to challenge discriminatory laws, interpret ambiguous provisions or where the law is silent, to confer rights on women,” Navi Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said.

however,In an overlook of the progression of women being given their rights, we can see that it has been a long struggle. The battle for the establishment of women as equal in the eyes of society has been an ongoing one for more than a century now and it continues to be fought
Legally young women are equal to men and have similar right. In some modern society, women's plight have improve through years but in patriarchal society, men still keep this traditional image of women.