history of the movement for gender
equality gender equality also known as
sexual equality is the state of equal
ease of access to resources and
opportunities regardless of gender
including economic participation and
decision making and the state of valuing
different behaviors aspirations and
needs equally regardless of gender
throughout history women have faced
intense discrimination from a lack of
legal rights and very little
independence from their husbands to
being thought to have inferior brains
for example in 1691 following criticism
for studying secular texts none saw
Juana
Nestor la Cruz of Mexico memorably
defended women's rights to education in
1691 by proclaiming one can perfectly
well philosophize while cooking supper a
national icon today she appears on
Mexican currency also in 1860 and a
philosophic
co-founded a society to provide support
to the poor including not only
affordable housing wood also decent work
for women and another example is Doria
Shafiq she catalyzed the women's rights
movement in Egypt when in 1951 she
alongside 1,500 women stormed Parliament
demanding full political rights pay
equality and reforms to personal status
laws these efforts along with countless
others to come helped pave the way to
women's right to vote in 1956 from its
early origins and cataloguing great
women in history in the 1970s have
turned to recording ordinary women's
expectations aspirations and status
then with the rise of the feminist
movement the emphasis shifted in the
1980s towards exposing the oppression of
women and examining how they responded
to discrimination and subordination in
more recent times women's history has
moved to charting female agency
recognizing women's strategies
accommodations and negotiations within a
male-dominated world although it
developed out of a feminist agenda
gender history has somewhat different
objectives
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