Women's Rights Author:Janet Stevenson What are Women's rights? Are they different from men's rights? Are they different from human rights? Or civil rights? — Two hundred years ago, when this nation was founded, no one was asking questions like these. It was understood by those who agreed that "All men are...endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," that the subject o... more »f that sentence was "men" in its most limited sense. The authors of the Declaration of Independence were not speaking of all mankind. Women, like children and slaves, were not endowed with any legal or political rights worth declaring. That is no longer true. The rights accorded women in American law and American practice are no longer the most advanced. But the battle is not over. Knowing something of its history will be useful to those who fight for its future.« less