women's rights

             Many question the legal rights of women. The answer to this question is multi-faceted. If the Declaration of Independence concerned the freedom, equality, justice, and prosperity of all people, that also means that women should be entitled to these rights. Women finally decided to take action and started the suffrage campaign that took 72 ceaseless years and the concerted efforts of thousands of women. In 1920, women finally won the most basic right in any democracy, the right to vote. Bit by bit women have worked their way to the top. However, women still experience many injustices. Indeed, women's rights have improved but there still is much to be done the fields of violence, harassment discrimination, and also rights in the workplace.
             Although there are many forms of violence, in addition to being a physical force with the purpose of damaging, violating but it is also known as an abusive exercise of power. Today there is still brute, physical violence exerted upon women by men everyday, especially in the form of rape and battery. Additionally, there are acts of violence that women perpetrate against each other-and commit against themselves. Violence against each other is for prestige and competition against each other. Women get battered and beaten everyday and are taken advantage of which leads them to being vulnerable to violence. Violence against women-rape, sexual assault and domestic violence-affects women worldwide regardless of class or race. Violence not only still affects women in the home, but also in the workplace, school, and the everyday arena of life. A lot has changed in the last couple of decades but everyday, every minute, some woman is probably being abused in some way in the world!
             Most Women who are victims of violence are an easy target for harassment and discrimination. Most men are not sexually harassed to the same extent as women in the workplace. The chance that wome
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