The racial segregation and oppression shared by women from their own experiences to change the political and social system were the awareness of women in the nation . Women voiced their sense of pride in accordance with their perspective and disappointments about the slow and inadequate changes. The hopes of women, guided by their active participation in the issues helped them survived the challenges. The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared segregation unconstitutional was the momentum for the civil rights . The momentum from the civil Rights Act of 1964, women rights were under the Act itself. Despite the focused of the women rights was on racial discrimination, the importance of personal identity and gender was part of the objectives. Under the women’s talent development, one of the greatest female players of all time in the field of tennis was Martina Navratilova. Martina said, “I learned lessons from my mother at my early age where sports are good for young women to compete, run, sweat, get dirty, feel tired, healthy, and refreshed” . Her role model was her own mother in the sport she was into and inspired on her job, as well. After the World War II or WWII, there was a rapid expansion on higher education; however, the representation of women declined with the influenced on social factors such as domesticity of women and men recruitment priority. The field of education suggested over the years that the experienced women provided participation and indicated social concerns on discipline.
Music in most communities is part in the school curriculum in the United States, and many students and teachers are women. Girls outnumbered boys in grades 10 and 12 in the instrumental ensembles in the years 1990, 1992, and 2002 from the data collected by the United States Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. A research conducted by an associate professor of history named Armstead L. Robinson on diaries, letters, and newspaper, household politics was part of it as documentation . Some southern White women could not even vote, they yielded with influence of families. During the hard time of the WWII, some southern whites feared from slave rebellions against them. Women were very influential to lead for the interest of the society especially the confederate husbands or sons to abandon from the battlefield and seek peace in general. As part of the statement, purpose of the National Organization for Women or NOW, all people who are members of the organization believed that the right time for true equality for all women in America, a priority and as part of the human rights beyond its border . “The importance of these events and developments influenced every life of a woman in the United Sates positively; however, behind its success is the challenges faced by every woman and its struggles are the achievements of the entire objectives desired. Women’s beliefs are solely its freedom for peace and flourish globally.”
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