Feminism by Minda Wu

In 1619, the first colonial women set foot in Jamestown. They were shortly followed by Puritan women, who landed in Massachusetts in 1620. Yet, men had been there since the early 1600's. Women were brought over to the New World when they realized that women did have a function in life and that they needed that in order to have a successful colony. Despite this salvation, women were treated similarly to household servants, there to clean the …

…Women's Liberation, women have been receiving more and more rights, freedoms, and powers. Although some of the differences, such as the organs of which deBeauvoir had written, will never change, the equal world of which the feminists dreamed, where "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," is becoming a reality.<Tab/>