Women’s studies scholars identify several stages of the American Women’s Movement. The first stage, suffrage/voting rights, began with the Seneca Falls women’s rights convention in

A major issue of the women’s rights movement was passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The ERA was first proposed in 1923. Women’s groups

The sexual revolution (liberated sexual activity) of the 1960s and onward was part, but certainly not the only part, of the Women’s Movement. It was

Probably the most significant issue of the Women’s Movement, and certainly the most controversial and emotional, was the call for reform of abortion laws. In