Women have fought for equality for well over one hundred years. Through the westward expansion, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and throughout the rock and roll decade of the 1970s. Through economic difficulties, industrial revolutions of the century, women ignited the match for equality and change. Gender equality has always been a major topic and influence of American culture, and as the years have passed so have the great women who pushed for equal rights among men.
How have women strived for equality over the years? Women’s liberation has been on the dashboard of society for over one hundred years. Women have made huge movements and strides towards their equality whether it be through social changes, political …show more content…
Women held jobs that consisted of washing, canning, ironing, and cooking for the homestead. They also did their best to help the men bring in income by selling milk, butter, or eggs from their homesteads. As families moved out West, so did their problems and alcoholism in men was one of them. Men and alcohol usually created strife and conflict within the household due to an increase in violence. The Christian Temperance Union was created in Kansas during this time to not only aid women in the alcohol fueled violence, but with the women’s liberation movement as well. By 1887 in Kansas, women had won their right to vote, but only at local elections. With an influx of homesteads and families expanding westward women were labeled “working women” as the term describes women who were employed as prostitutes in saloons (Hewitt and Lawson 2013, 502-503). In 1870 Lottie Rollin addressed a convention on women’s rights stating, “We ask suffrage not as a favor, not as a privilege, but as a right based on the ground that we are human beings, and as such, entitled to all human beings” (Stanton, Anthony and Gage 1870).The right to vote was a hot topic throughout American history and even back in 1897 when the state of Utah passed women’s right to vote among state elections after the Edmunds-Tucker Act, and polygamy was banned (Hewitt and Lawson 2013,
How have women strived for equality over the years? Women’s liberation has been on the dashboard of society for over one hundred years. Women have made huge movements and strides towards their equality whether it be through social changes, political …show more content…
Women held jobs that consisted of washing, canning, ironing, and cooking for the homestead. They also did their best to help the men bring in income by selling milk, butter, or eggs from their homesteads. As families moved out West, so did their problems and alcoholism in men was one of them. Men and alcohol usually created strife and conflict within the household due to an increase in violence. The Christian Temperance Union was created in Kansas during this time to not only aid women in the alcohol fueled violence, but with the women’s liberation movement as well. By 1887 in Kansas, women had won their right to vote, but only at local elections. With an influx of homesteads and families expanding westward women were labeled “working women” as the term describes women who were employed as prostitutes in saloons (Hewitt and Lawson 2013, 502-503). In 1870 Lottie Rollin addressed a convention on women’s rights stating, “We ask suffrage not as a favor, not as a privilege, but as a right based on the ground that we are human beings, and as such, entitled to all human beings” (Stanton, Anthony and Gage 1870).The right to vote was a hot topic throughout American history and even back in 1897 when the state of Utah passed women’s right to vote among state elections after the Edmunds-Tucker Act, and polygamy was banned (Hewitt and Lawson 2013,