Examples of women role b4 RW
Before the Revolutionary war, women’s role and rights were strongly inferior to men. Men hold all the power to make decisions, however married women lack of legal rights. The law strongly disagreed to recognize that the women’s rights in every aspects, such as political and economics in the eighteenth century. Women cannot officially vote in the congress until 1920. In other words, women were not allowed to serve in elected office or in any other official political capacity. Invariably, men were supposed to be the head of household and women plays an important role as supporting the family. However, as for those women that did not married to anyone, they were more likely assisting their parent. “Women were singularly suited to serve as dispenser of love, comfort, and moral instruction to husband and children (Davidson, 230).” Women cooked for the family, knitted clothing and prepare some household essentials. Basically do every chore that keep the house cleaned and supervised their children. Some of the women even take care of any others that live with the family. However, women role started to change during the Revolutionary War. Starting then, women served as the camp followers, educators and labors in the mills or factory. -Reason why the role of women changed. There were many reasons that result in the changed in women roles; most of the reasons are due to claiming the rights of their own. In the early colonial period, men held all the rights to own property, and choose to marry their wife. However, these men spent the financial of the family on alcohol. These drunken men abused their wife or their children. The result of these bad thing giving the women an idea to have their right to own property, and to shield their family financial from their drunken husband. They need to be able to vote in order to change the law about the rights of married women. The war had caused destruction and lots of life being taken away, some women lost their husband and sons in the battle. However, due to the huge war debt after costly victory from the French and Indian war, the soldiers were paid sporadically, many wives had to start working outside the house in order to earn enough to support their families (Mintz, 66).” How it all changes In the 1765, after the representative of nine colonies gathered at the Stamp Act Congress, decision had made: to boycott on the imported goods from England. This act as the rebels against the Stamp Act and Sugar Act, forcing the parliament to repealed against these two taxes. In order to prior to boycotts against the British goods, citizens need something to replace the …show more content…
However in some rare cases, many women pretended to be the male soldier and fought in the war. There were some famous female soldiers that went to war with the men, such as Deborah Sampson. She fought under the alias of Robert Shurtliff in New York, 1781. She served for almost over a year before she was discovered. Another brave woman was Margaret Corbin, she went into the war, fought with her husband and the other 600 American soldiers as to defend the Fort Washington in New York. “These female soldiers usually disguised themselves as men by cutting their hair, binding their breasts with bandages and adopting masculine names (Norton, …show more content…
People started to believed in the intensive styles of child teaching and more systematic and prolonged forms of education. The main maternal nurture would be a key to shape children 's moral character (Mintz, 4). Society started to feel and saw the education of women were one of the way to prepare the success for the country; women education were not mainly for the women themselves, but to make them to educates the future generations into a well structured citizens. These citizens were expected to be civic leaders that will make sure the peace of the country. Since women were going to play a crucial role in forming children 's character, it was essential that they be properly prepared for this task (Mintz,