Mini Unit: Women's Rights Around the World

Do your students struggle to see the long game in the fight for women's rights? Are you looking for a resource that connects the British Suffragettes to a market trader in colonial West Africa?

This Mini-Unit: Women's Rights Around the World is the perfect short-format solution for your history classroom. Designed to be a high-impact, low-commitment entry point to our resources, this pack provides all the scaffolding you need for a powerful project-based assessment or a focused 2-3 day deep dive into global women's history.

Why Start With This Mini-Unit?

This is an essential, instantly-deployable set of resources for any educator looking to:

• Move Beyond the US/UK Focus: Introduce the diversity of women's experiences from 1800 to 1970 across multiple continents, including France, Russia, British India, Egypt, and Gold Coast (West Africa)
• Teach the "Law vs. Life Gap": Utilize our core concept that distinguishes rights on paper (laws, constitutional change) from rights in life (daily reality, economic barriers, violence, and custom)
• Analyze Activism & Strategy: Equip students to evaluate different strategies—from peaceful lobbying to militant protest and labor organizing—in diverse historical contexts

What's Included in Your Instant Digital Download?

This mini-unit is a resource powerhouse, built to be mixed and matched with your existing lessons:

• Teaching Slides
• Character Cards: Sixteen detailed character cards provide instant, compelling case studies for students to use as research starting points 
• Strategy Match Activity: A critical thinking activity that presents six historical scenarios and asks students to match them with the most realistic activist strategies (Petitions, Protests, Court Cases, etc.), forcing them to consider risk and outcome
• Core Concepts Reading: Explanations of how rights change in "Layers"(Political, Economic, Family) and the difference between Suffragists (NUWSS) and Suffragettes (WSPU) in the UK
• Project Guide: A rigorous two-letter assignment (Past → Present, Present → Past) that requires students to research and include specific historical evidence, a primary source, and a "Law vs. Life" example

Please Note: This is a focused Mini-Unit. It does not include full, minute-by-minute lesson plans; it provides the powerful content and scaffolding so you can build the lessons that best suit your class.

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