Difficult, and Not Totally Secure, Essay

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Particularly post war era women entered the workforce in huge numbers but there were many hindrances in their way as they tried to secure their credit. They had to found for the ownership of property as well as equal right to employment opportunities and salary. The idea of women being spender in the house also strengthened. As a result of reforms in the society women became powerful economically and socially.

Religious leaders were of the opinion that "religious principles should be broadened so as to include 'all useful social theories' lest Christianity be left behind in the onward march of society." (Charles Howard Hopkins, 1940. P.32)

As envisaged by the Christian religious leaders, the office of deaconess declared that women can a deaconess, with the provision that she holds right spirit and the appropriate training (Golder, 1908) yet the best role for her lies under the institution of marriage.


During the 19th century women fought for their rights as individual and equal rights of education, employment and making choices. Through the 1907 act of citizen women got the equal right of protection and citizenship. Yet American women from 1907-1922 did not have the proper right of citizenship. At earlier women was considered a subordinate to her husband. This act was named as married women's independent citizenship act. This act was passed by the House of Representatives on September 22, 1922. (Lemons, 1973)

The twentieth century women had got equal rights to education, employment as well as marital laws for their protection. They are working in every field right from education, nursing to astronauts and scientists. They are priests, politicians, bureaucrats, engineers, scientists, astronauts.

In the early twentieth century, women were not allowed to be bishops but by the 2004 there were 12 women bishops.....

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