Why are many women opposed to women's rights?

In 1911, Josephine Dodge, who also led a movement to establish day care centers to help working mothers, founded the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS). The NAOWS was most popular in northeastern cities. read more

Thus the opposition to women’s rights does not necessarily portray an opposition to the rights of people in general. It sometimes portrays, instead, an unhappiness with the inappropriate characterization of human rights as gender rights, which is the very thing we are trying to avoid. read more

Many women are against it, too. For her book “F-Bomb: Dispatches from the War On Feminism” (BenBella Books), author Lauren McKeon talked with a range of anti-feminist women — from those who championed GamerGate (the movement that harassed women in the video-game industry) to those looking for a return to traditional housewife roles. read more

Anti-suffrage views dominated among men and women through the early twentieth century. The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage did not form until 1911. read more