Women Evolving

Women Evolving Women today have come a long way by gaining equal rights. Virginia Woolf’s words, “It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare” (1), demonstrate women’s rights of the past and present and how they have changed. Around Shakespeare’s time, girls were told to stay at home and “mend the stockings or mind the stew and not …showed first 75 words of 1261 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1261 total…was popularized (Zophy and Kavenick 641). Women now had a right to choose pregnancy compared to the obligation of the past. Forbidding discrimination on the basis of gender or marital status in credit transactions, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 was passed. Gaining many rights over the years, women, in general, lead more fulfilling lives. Woolf would take pride in knowing she helped to contribute to the expansion of woman’s rights even after her death.