Throughout history, women have had fewer legal rights, and far less job opportunities than men. Women's lib. has reevaluated these traditional views and given women the rights they have deserved. It proved that women are just as good as men in all ways, and that women can do most things equally. Men have had their rights for centuries, and women finally got theirs because of the Women's Rights Movement.

For a very long time, women have been viewed as very creative in terms of human life. However, historically, they have been considered major sources of temptation and evil, and of being intellectually inferior to men. This started mostly because of the views of women in Christian theology.

Women are often thought of as weaker than men, unable to perform work requiring muscular strength, or even intellectual development. Because of this, it was expected that women take care of

the children, wash clothes, etc., instead of the "heavier" jobs like hunting and plowing. The women were thought of as the weak sex, although their duties were quite strenuous.

Equity law was developed in England, which emphasized equal rights over tradition. This law had a liberating effect on/in the United States.

Around 1967 the women's liberation movement became widespread. Increased birth control and abortions helped women control their own destines for the first time. The feminist era was in full throttle.

By the end of the nineteenth century, the number of women students was rapidly growing. There were more women's colleges than ever, and a bigger number of admissions for women to attend universities and regular colleges. In 1870, there was an estimated 1/5 of resident college and university students that were women. By 1900 it was up to 1/3. In 1985, about 53% of all college students were women, 1/4 of whom were older than twenty-nine.

Congress finally passed the women's suffrage bill in June 1919, and the Nineteenth Amendment Constitution became a law on August 26, 1920. Now about twenty-five million women had the right

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