which amendment eliminated gender as a barrier?
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The 19th Amendment ratified in 1920 gave women the vote. The Equal Rights Amendment is claimed to guarantee equal rights of the law but has not been ratified.
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By far the most important laws passed in the 1950s were written after the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in which the Court ruled that publis schools could NOT be segregated.  After that decision there were a plethora of cases and laws passed that opened the doors to integration in schools, movie theaters, universities, swimming pools, golf courses, mortuaries, bus stations, etc...\n\n\nIncidentally, women got the right to vote in 1920--NOT the 1950s.
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let women vote and no more slaves.  u got it rite
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there are mixed studies on that.  there is an argument to be made that by removing sexual temptation and competition from a school environment, you reduce a lot of the need for students to worry about anything except study.  also, it is becoming an understood precept that girls and boys learn differently and at different rates.  by separating the two sexes, you can prepare the teachers accordingly and hire teachers specifically capable of teaching boys vs. girls.  it comes down to ensuring that same-sex schools receive equal funding regardless of gender.  for example, sports is a huge part of the inequity between genders and funding.  until that's addressed you'll always have issues of true parity in education.
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"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal assistance."  \n  - Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964\n\nSo it has not had a negative impact on the military.
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The struggle for women's suffrage in America began in the 1820s with the writings of Fanny Wright. In her book, Course of Popular Lectures (1829) and in the Free Enquirer Wright not only advocated women being given the vote but the abolition of slavery, free secular education, birth control and more liberal divorce laws. \n\nIn 1893 women got the vote in Colorado, followed by Utah (1896), Idaho (1896), Washington (1910), California (1911), Arizona (1912), Kansas (1912), Oregon (1912), Illinois (1913), Nevada (1914) and Montana (1914). \n\nIn January, 1918, Woodrow Wilson announced that women's suffrage was urgently needed as a "war measure". The House of Representatives passed the federal woman suffrage amendment 274 to 136 but it was opposed in the Senate and was defeated in September 1918. Another attempt in February 1919 also ended in failure. \n\nIn May 1919 the House of Representatives again passed the amendment (304 to 89) and on 4th June 1919 the Senate finally gave in and passed it by 66 to 30. On 26th August 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was certified by the Secretary of State, when Tennessee, the thirty-sixth and final state needed, signed for ratification.
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Probably the U.S. military is the best example.  \n\nThey still enforce quotas for women, who are excluded from many combat duties I believe, unless there's been massive changes since I was in about 15 years ago.
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Try the secretary of state's web site.  I'm sorry I don't know what it is.  I found the text of Amendment 3 on there.  I'm sure the others are too.
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Unfortunately it is because those laws were passed when women were thought of as objects and posessions. Rape was the woman's fault, etc. I strongly suggest writing a POM to your congressmen stating that you would like to see those laws changed. I am entirely in favor of changing them and I am entirely in favor of Jessica's Law!
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amendment X (the Tenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. It states:\nThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.\nThe Amendment, which makes explicit the idea that the federal government is limited only to the powers it is granted in the Constitution.\n\n\nSo Has the fed out step it self? As in schools, abortion, marriage and so on and on. It all was meant to be up to each state not the feds. \n\nI would need to say Yes to your Question, but is it better this way. In some ways yes but many others no not at all.
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It was an amendment to the US Constitution that prohibited the sale of alcohol.  It was later repealed.
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The first state to allow women to vote was Wyoning in 1880's.  Then the whole U.S.A. allowed them to vote in 1920.
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Women could negotiate ALL financial matters for the household. They could not vote and could NOT be citizens if their father did not acknowledge their birth. If he did not, they were adopted into the prostitute guilds and had no rights at all. This was also true of male children. Women could, and did, own property.
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Because you do not need the President to pass a Constitutional amendment, which is what it took.\nAn amendment is passed by the state legislatures, and women mobilized at the state level to get it passed.\n\nHere is a good timeline on suffrage:\nhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html\n\nGood info here:\nhttp://www.history.rochester.edu/class/suffrage/home.htm
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amendments,  \n\nfrom congress and or the supreme court
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In the short term, it caused a number of political shifts. One of these was the adoption of the 19th Amendment, which granted universal sufferage. (Women proved themselves to be capable of conducting domestic affairs and thus were rewarded with voting rights.) It also pushed the U.S. into the world scene as a power to be reckoned with, not as much as President Wilson would have prefered, but there was a more favourable attitude towards global issues. In the long term, it put the U.S. on the path to becoming a superpower as it had the ability to conduct military action without the concern of being invaded itself.
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"Section 1. The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. \n\nSection 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."