Essay On Women's Participation In The Election Of 1911

As women started to realize that they were always taken advantage of and were treated unfair, the country again started to see a rise in women’s involvement after 1911. Young women from around the country began to advocate workers’ rights and especially women’s rights. Prior to the fire, women were treated like trash by being paid little money for their labor and they had to work in nasty, unsanitary conditions. This caused the Factory Investigating Commission to take an interest in factory conditions and started to investigate the factory safety. A little while after the triangle fire, World War I was starting and since many men needed to go off to fight the war, women had to work on behalf of the war effort. During this time many female activist, …show more content…
While acquiring better safety conditions in the factories across the country, women felt they were still missing out on some rights and this led to the civil rights, or women’s rights, movements. Women wanted the right to vote because they wanted to have an active role in politics. As the Election of 1912 was coming up, the country saw an increase in the role women played to election campaigns. Women started to support the Bull Moose Party, which Roosevelt had created aside from the Republican Party, because it wanted changes for the country as well. The new third party had some democratic values in its platform, such as women’s suffrage, social welfare for women and children, and stricter regulation of industrial combinations, which appealed and empowered most women to fight for their natural rights ("Progressive Party | Course-Notes.Org."). Even though Roosevelt lost the election, many women continued their fight for suffrage and in 1917 when New York adopted woman suffrage other states started doing the same. By 1920 Congress decides to pass the 19th amendment to grant women the right to vote, and the country saw women vote for the first