“Compare and contrast the women's suffrage movements of the late 19th and early centuries with the European feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s.” While Women's suffrage movements primarily focused on overturning legal barriers to equality. , feminist movements have successfully addressed a wide range of other feminist issues. The first dealt mainly with voting rights and the second with inequalities such as equal pay and reproductive rights. Both movements made enormous progress in the social and legal status of women. One has achieved her goals while the other continues to fight for women's rights.I. Women's Suffrage MovementsA. The main goal was to get women the right to vote.1. Suffragists believed that although a woman's place was in the home, she should be able to influence the laws that affected that home. Women's right to vote became international law in 1948 when the United Nations (UN) adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.B. Was sparked by Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).1. She is considered the "grandmother of British feminism" whose ideals helped shape the thinking of the suffragettes. At the beginning of the 20th century, English women achieved civil equality.1. More and more women went to work outside the home, they gained the right to sit in Parliament, more women began to serve on school boards and local bodies and more women began to become more educated.2. Bills were passed to help the women's movement.a. The Infant Custody Act of 1873 granted custody of the child...... middle of paper ......of America.B. Earlier feminist movements primarily aimed to achieve basic rights for women and later movements reformed these rights. Today, nothing remains of the ancient social role of women. Almost all professions are open to women. The number of women in government and traditionally male-dominated fields has increased significantly. More women than men obtain a bachelor's degree. Many women's groups still predominate and constitute major political forces. Although the two movements hoped to achieve different things and used different tactics, they nevertheless came together to achieve women's rights and achieved more than anyone could have imagined. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-wave_feminism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Womens_Rights_%28other_than_voting%29