Eleanor Roosevelt And The Women's Movement

Eleanor Roosevelt was the women that changed the First Lady’s position forever. She was married to Franklin Roosevelt, a soon to be president. Women did not have many rights and needed someone who would speak up for them. Eleanor was that person; she was that voice who spoke for them giving them the rights they should have had to begin with. She did not just do things because she was First Lady. When she was out of office, she continued exploring her passion, which was giving women the right to vote. Before entering the white house, Eleanor Roosevelt went through a rough childhood- her parents died at a young age.
Eleanor was a shy, bashful, kid it took her a long time before her grow into the First Lady she was. Anna E. Roosevelt …show more content…
Franklin made Eleanor into the feminist she was by teaching her more about equality. As a result making her responsible for women receiving their rights. During the Great Depression women were struggling to keep the few right they did have ( “TV's Most-watched History Series"). Eleanor saw this and dedicated herself to helping the women’s right movement grow ("Eleanor Roosevelt and the Women's Movement."). Eleanor did not just hear about these problems, she saw first hand the walls women had to climb by working hand and hand with them on social justice problems (History.com Staff). For the most part Eleanor focused on trying to fix living wage, birth control and women’s jobs ("Eleanor Roosevelt and the Women's Movement."). She knew that few women had federal jobs, she felt very strongly that this was injustice and should change (History.com Staff). As a Result her and Franklin made the New Deal so it helped both women and men (Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform). She signed this against what close friends and co-workers said (History.com Staff). In this case the New Deal did not help as many women as she hoped for. Then she tried to get She-She-She camps. There was a program like this for men called CCC (civilian conservation corp), where she got the idea for …show more content…
After the death of her husband she took a break from politics. She took this break because, she was not sure if she really wanted to continue with public service ("Eleanor Roosevelt Biography"). During this time she became an active private person. Then people started to ask if she wanted to help them, she could not turn them down. “From 1946 to 1953 Roosevelt served as a U.S. delegate to the to the United Nations, where she oversaw the drafting and passage of the Universal Human Declaration of Rights” ("Eleanor Roosevelt."). The Democratic National Committee gave her a chair on her board for women’s problems ("Eleanor Roosevelt and the Women's Movement."). Following this Harry Truman gave Eleanor a spot on the Nation's General Assembly Board. Not only did she help with those she also had a chair in the United Nations Human Rights Commission. She did not forget about her fight for women’s rights. She was personally given a chair on the President’s Commission on the Status of Women by John F. Kennedy himself. Being on all these boards did not stop her from her writing career. After office she wrote This I Remember, On My Own, and an Autobiography. She was fairly proud of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights she wrote during this time ("Eleanor Roosevelt Biography"). When the U.S. went through WWII she felt the U.S. should help by housing European