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  • History of Women’s Rights in the 20th Century

    History of Women’s Rights in the 20th Century Women’s in the 20th-Century Developments Socialists Movements and Communism Governments After wars and revolutions in Russia (1917) and China (1949), new Communist governments discouraged the patriarchal family system and supported sexual equality, including birth control. In the Soviet Union, however, the majority of working women held low-paid…

  • History of Women’s Rights

    History of Women’s Rights until the 20th Century Traditional Status Some scholars argue that the discovery throughout the European continent and the Near East of thousands of stone figures of female goddesses dating from the Paleolithic period and on indicates that early societies were originally goddess-worshiping, matrifocal civilizations. Male dominance, however, was preeminent from the…

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