Sex Equality Quotes
This relatively radical viewpoint regarding equal rights for women was expressed by Roosevelt as his Senior thesis at Harvard in 1880. In those days, the kind of scrutiny of everything a candidate ever wrote or said that is characteristic of modern politics, did not exist. It is very doubtful that if the Republican Party officials had ever known that he had espoused these views—even as a young student, that he ever would have risen so high in the party, much less get nominated at the Vice Presidential candidate which was his entree to the Presidency. When in office however, there is no record of him reviving his youthful proposal that women who marry retain their maiden names.
Without realizing it Abbott conceded some of the reasons that some people opposed women serving in the military. His entire argument hangs on the slender thread that it is not the function of a woman which was a view held by some people with particular religious and philosophical views. When that group was clearly shown to be a minority of Americans, women entered military service and joined police forces across the country.
Wadsworth had opposed all earlier legislation assisting women, but devised this strategy which split the pro-woman’s equality movement by urging a policy of partial equal rights.
Although born and educated in the United States, she lived mostly in England and was politically active there.
Subsection (1) states that all Canadians are equal. Canada built affirmative action into its most recent constitution.
