Michelle Leyva
Professor Zimmer
History 1312- 001
September 25, 2015
Women
Equality has been and still continues to be a major issue in America. Over the years America has overcome many issues dealing with equality that include the color of the skin, financial statuses, being born out of America, and the gender of one. Women, in particular, had fought for many of their rights they have now. Women didn't just need the right to vote just to feel like they’re not left out anymore, but because they wanted to have a say in politics, women wanted to fix many things that would help everyone's health in a workplace or economic standing, not just their own voting rights. The years 1890 to 1920 were the turn of the century for women. The women during …show more content…
The birth control movement brought upper, middle, and lower class women together, especially if the women had jobs, they had to limit the number of pregnancies and stated that women should be able to enjoy sex without any children. The main face to this issue was Margaret Sanger; she was well educated and worked as a nurse but then quit to continue in her birth control movement. Birth control was a public health issue and many women brought up changes related to public health; Sanger wrote articles on health for the Socialist Party paper …show more content…
Sanger was charged many times due to her articles and usually fled to Europe to withdraw those charges and to learn more about contraceptives. Sanger also did a national speaking tour where she gave information about contraceptives to other women. She founded the National Birth Control League in 1914 and set up the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn and then sentenced to prison for doing so. Years later, there would be clinics in almost all major cities and towns. Planned Parenthood was organized where nurse, Margaret Sanders, gave information about birth control when families couldn't afford to have anymore children. Planned parenthood gave families the knowledge on ignorant sex and how to control the number of children born in a family. Many mothers became poor with the more children they had to support for and with the Hyde Amendment, it was hard for women to get an abortion and luckily Planned Parenthood helped these poor women look for many other ways to deal with pregnancies. In conclusion, women gained the right to vote, the right to use birth control and gained their wages and worked for a betterment in their workplace. If in today’s society we still see a favor-ment in men, imagine if women never fought for these rights, imagine if women still had to be housewives, imagine if your children were working in a workplace where they could die any second, imagine that the powerful women today don’t
Professor Zimmer
History 1312- 001
September 25, 2015
Women
Equality has been and still continues to be a major issue in America. Over the years America has overcome many issues dealing with equality that include the color of the skin, financial statuses, being born out of America, and the gender of one. Women, in particular, had fought for many of their rights they have now. Women didn't just need the right to vote just to feel like they’re not left out anymore, but because they wanted to have a say in politics, women wanted to fix many things that would help everyone's health in a workplace or economic standing, not just their own voting rights. The years 1890 to 1920 were the turn of the century for women. The women during …show more content…
The birth control movement brought upper, middle, and lower class women together, especially if the women had jobs, they had to limit the number of pregnancies and stated that women should be able to enjoy sex without any children. The main face to this issue was Margaret Sanger; she was well educated and worked as a nurse but then quit to continue in her birth control movement. Birth control was a public health issue and many women brought up changes related to public health; Sanger wrote articles on health for the Socialist Party paper …show more content…
Sanger was charged many times due to her articles and usually fled to Europe to withdraw those charges and to learn more about contraceptives. Sanger also did a national speaking tour where she gave information about contraceptives to other women. She founded the National Birth Control League in 1914 and set up the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn and then sentenced to prison for doing so. Years later, there would be clinics in almost all major cities and towns. Planned Parenthood was organized where nurse, Margaret Sanders, gave information about birth control when families couldn't afford to have anymore children. Planned parenthood gave families the knowledge on ignorant sex and how to control the number of children born in a family. Many mothers became poor with the more children they had to support for and with the Hyde Amendment, it was hard for women to get an abortion and luckily Planned Parenthood helped these poor women look for many other ways to deal with pregnancies. In conclusion, women gained the right to vote, the right to use birth control and gained their wages and worked for a betterment in their workplace. If in today’s society we still see a favor-ment in men, imagine if women never fought for these rights, imagine if women still had to be housewives, imagine if your children were working in a workplace where they could die any second, imagine that the powerful women today don’t