Glass Ceiling “Politics”
There is no secret that women have a hard time succeeding in the workplace unlike men. I have gained knowledge of rights women have gained over the last decade while in my American Women Rights course. Women have not always been able to succeed in politics because of a barrier stopping them from doing so. This is better known as a glass ceiling, “a physical barrier that hinders a woman from rising to a high-level position. Women have gone through a lot in the past few years when it comes to their political rights. From marching for the right to vote to fighting for the right to holding a position in the political office. The glass ceiling has been broken when it comes to women being involved in politics. America now has tons of women that has made tremendous changes in politics. It all begun in when women got tired of not being able to vote, it would be a long fight before they got the right to vote but the fight was worth it. In 1869, Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Women’s suffrage association. The main goal of this association was to be able to gain voting rights for women and “make their votes matter.” In 1890, the national women suffrage Association and the …show more content…
Woodhull ran under the banner of the Equal Rights Party—formerly the People’s Party—which supported equal rights for women and women’s suffrage. (FELSENTHAL,2015) She put a crack in the glass ceiling but did not break the glass ceiling because she did not get nominated for either the democratic or republican party. She ran for President even before women had the right to vote which made it hard for her to even get any votes because women were not respected in politics during that time. She could not even vote for herself even though she was running for president just because she was running for President it did not give her any
There is no secret that women have a hard time succeeding in the workplace unlike men. I have gained knowledge of rights women have gained over the last decade while in my American Women Rights course. Women have not always been able to succeed in politics because of a barrier stopping them from doing so. This is better known as a glass ceiling, “a physical barrier that hinders a woman from rising to a high-level position. Women have gone through a lot in the past few years when it comes to their political rights. From marching for the right to vote to fighting for the right to holding a position in the political office. The glass ceiling has been broken when it comes to women being involved in politics. America now has tons of women that has made tremendous changes in politics. It all begun in when women got tired of not being able to vote, it would be a long fight before they got the right to vote but the fight was worth it. In 1869, Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Women’s suffrage association. The main goal of this association was to be able to gain voting rights for women and “make their votes matter.” In 1890, the national women suffrage Association and the …show more content…
Woodhull ran under the banner of the Equal Rights Party—formerly the People’s Party—which supported equal rights for women and women’s suffrage. (FELSENTHAL,2015) She put a crack in the glass ceiling but did not break the glass ceiling because she did not get nominated for either the democratic or republican party. She ran for President even before women had the right to vote which made it hard for her to even get any votes because women were not respected in politics during that time. She could not even vote for herself even though she was running for president just because she was running for President it did not give her any