Psychology Of Women

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Psychology of Women


Reproductive Rights and Woman’s Health

“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose conscientiously whether she will or will not be a mother.” Margaret Sanger was a woman’s rights activist in the early nineteen hundreds and became aware that women’s health and reproductive rights were very much suppressed during her time. It is clear now that there is more than just the issue of abortion and whether or not women have the right to choose, but the matter of woman actually choosing to even become mothers at all. Women have been proving to society for decades now that they are just as equal to men and should have the same opportunity to live a successful life if they indeed to choose to do so. There are several things to consider and often overlooked about woman and their mental health. Stereotyping, reproductive rights, sexuality and how society influences the role woman take part in home-life and work-life.
Through out history and time it has been known that woman bore and raised the children and maintained the home, while men went out and worked. A woman’s voice was more often unheard and the rights to her body were not given to her. It is seen how woman had no rights at all and that woman had to fight for the right to even vote for the next up coming president in 1920’s. In 1916 two women opened the first birth control clinic in American. Before that time there was no information provide for woman about birth control and the idea of woman having the right not to have children was absurd and not even thought of by many. Reproductive freedom was the opportunity clinics like this one gave woman. The ability to choose whether or not to have children was now in the hands of woman and not their husbands. During the time of the opening of this clinic in New York, women were having many children and were unable to rais...