The History Of Women's Rights in America Explained
Welcome to Save 2020, today we are breaking down women’s rights. 2020 has been prolific for many reasons, obviously mostly bad, but it also marked 100 years since the passing of the 19th amendment, guaranteeing that some women could vote. Growing up in school they really love to shove the year 1920 down our throats as the year when all women in the United States were legally allowed to vote, but the 19th amendment, which was the amendment giving women the right to vote did not negate the 15th amendment, which prevented many Black people, especially Black women, from voting because of, again poll taxes, literacy tests and voter ID laws.
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Yes, in 1965 the Voting Rights Act was passed and applied to all elections, state and federal, and basically gave everyone the right to vote, but it only temporarily banned the literacy test--which wasn’t made permanent until 1975--which was only 45 years ago, and was when everyone actually had the right to vote.
Since the passing of the 19th amendment, there has been a lot of progress for women. For example the approval of birth control in 1960, the first woman, Shirley Chisholm ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 1972, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 gave women access to credit cards in their own names, The Equal Pay Act of 1963, The Roe Vs. Wade victory in 1973, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female Supreme Court justice in 1981--which also just so happened to be the year Beyonce was born.
All of which culminated in 2016 when the first woman ever became a major party’s nominee for president, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
But alas, just as we thought we were about to elect the first woman president of the United States, a former reality television host with an unhealthy obsession with power ripped it away; and who would've thought only four years this man could do so much to unravel what women have been working towards for hundreds of years.
In his first 100 days, he cut funding to the UN Population Fund which in 2016 alone prevented 947,000 unplanned pregnancies; 295,000 unsafe abortions; and 2,340 maternal deaths, not to mention his repeated attacks on Planned Parenthood and work to defund it. In January of this year, the current administration issued a proposal that would gut the agency’s 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule which primarily benefited women and people of color, and changing Housing rules to exclude trans women and other gender non-conforming people from homeless shelters.
Just this May, his administration removed the Obama-era Title IX protections for survivors of sexual assault on college campuses, making it even more difficult for survivors. Which isn't suspicious at all given Trump's background with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. On top of all that, he’s installed more anti-choice and anti-women judges to lifetime appointments than ever in history. With the help of Mitch McConnell, he has already appointed more justices than Obama did in all his 8 years. I.e. Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, both of whom just voted in favor of allowing employers to deny their employees birth control based on their “religious freedom."
The dehumanizing language the president has used these past 4 years to describe and address women, specifically women of color, has set a precedent for his followers as well as impressionable young people all over the world. With increasing attempts to overturn Roe vs Wade in states like Louisiana, Georgia, Ohio, and Alabama and with the president's newest Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett who's background in anti-abortion belief leaves the future of civil and reproductive rights in this country are in jeopardy.
Not only this, but because of the Coronavirus and Trump’s terrible response, income inequality has begun to grow at a rapid pace, and with the coronavirus, it’s only getting more and more difficult for women in the workforce.
So if you are or you know a woman--VOTE!
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