Why did women have so few if any rights in the past?

Answer 1

Religion did a lot to supress women.

Answer 2

Throughout European history, women played leadership roles and governed over the people. For example, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth I and II in England, Catherine DeMedici in France, plus all the royalty in Europe involved women. There were Duchesses, Baronettes, Ladies, etc. All those women could sentence any non-royal men to death if they wished. Some did. So your queston refers to American women. Up until the 20th Century, America was an agricultural society where families took care of farms. In the big cities, most worked in crammed factories, men and women. And in certain regions, they worked in the mines like in Kentucky and Idaho. Life 100 years ago was like nothing it is today. And yes women were educated. The Seven sister colleges, Vassar, Smith, Barnard, Swarthmore, Radcliffe (there are two others that I forget) educated women from the elite class. Those special and priviledged, like European royalty.

Answer 3

Men are about 30% stronger than women and were too self centered and unevolved to see that women were just as intelligent and human as them. So they used physical force to dominate anyone they could, which usually included most if not all women. Men have evolved gradually over the years and are finally beginning to see women as adult people same as themselves. However, we have a long way to go. There are still alot of people who fight this and denigrate women for no apparant reason other than hate and stupidity.

Answer 4

bcuz in the past it was believed that men can do much more than women. it even came 2 they werent allowed 2 study and in a country i think it was India when a man dies his wife or wives were buried or burned alive w/ them cruel right?.. i guess its bcuz of the belief that women aren't as useful as men and not as powerful.. 4 example a great ruler back then Napoleon had a controversy it was said that Napoleon had sex w/ one of his generals but at the time there was nothing wrong w/ it in fact it was considered 2 be better than having sex w/ a woman. they were only used for the purpose of breeding... until now there are cases in w/c women are 2ND to the male race.. ex. if a man slept w/ 15 women it would earn him a good reputation but if a woman slept w/ 15 men she will in fact be called a whore... these r facts no hard feelings....

Answer 5

Tough Question. You have to know the difference between a right and a privilege. Today, special interest groups and radicals have blurred the distinction between the two. For example, driving a car is not a right, its a privilege. Aborton is not a right, its a moral decision. If one honestly looked at true rights as afforded by the constitution, the number of actual rights in say 1900, is slightly different than those of today. So to answer your question, for the most part they didn't, it just seems that way because of what your being programmed to believe by those special interest groups and other radicals via the media and other forms of (mis)information exchange. That's why those groups are so dangerous.

Answer 6

Because they were too busy taking care of the important things, like giving birth, raising children, feeding the hungry, making clothes, keeping men from walking out of the cave with their you-know-what sticking out so the other men wouldn't laugh at them when their winkey was littler than all the others. I think after several millennia of the constant wiping of men butts, they finally decided it was time to show them how it's done.

Answer 7

Women in many parts of the world still have very few rights..
Males are the aggressive dominant sex...Females submissive...
"Might makes right" except in the Western European & US/Canadian Christian Modern World where women have
become equal in the eyes of the law...
Asia, Africa, Mid-East, Orient, India, Even Latin & South America are all still often brutal places for women to live..

Answer 8

Because they were seen as property of their husbands that's why. Women didn't matter at all when the Europeans came to the New World. Women weren't fit for anything except making babies back then. They were just fine with that and it didn't bother them until the stupid feminsts came around in the 1960s and changed the way of life. Now you have children being raised by strangers instead of their mothers.

Answer 9

Women's rights were denied because we are the child bearers. Only when women can control their reproductive rights (refuse arranged marriage, refuse sex, have planned pregnancies) can they devote energy to other societal concerns (education, business, politics, religion). Most women who have a child, even one not conceived in love, will spend most of their time and energy protecting and providing for the child. Often, having a child makes a woman more vulnerable than previously.

Answer 10

Because the fundamentals of the Bible, Qu'ran, Torah all view women as the posessions of men