Women's Rights

Reviews women's search for equal rights from the founding of the United States to the winning of the vote. Portrays the role of women in American history from the framing of the Declaration of Independence and from comments of Abigail Adams to the present feminist movement. A dialogue between feminists and anti-feminists based on actual speeches, diaries, and newspaper reports provides the commentary. Conditions and movements which brought about changes in the status of women are highlighted: the frontier, abolitionism, the Civil War, industrialization and suffragism., A high school girl wants to swim on the boy's team, but there are state bylaws which prohibit this. In a court action, her lawyer states that these bylaws are unconstitutional, because the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees equal protection of the law to all citizens, regardless of race or sex. The issue is left to the viewers to decide.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.