Women's Rights During The Progressive Era

History of American Women Final The ERA, which is also known as the equal rights amendment was introduced in Congress for the first time in 1923, and stands for equal rights under the law and will not be revoked by any state in terms of one’s sex. In 1913, Alice Paul and her friend Lucy Burns who founded the Women’s National Party, a party which promotes equal rights for women. Paul proposed the equal rights amendment which embodied that woman, despite obtaining the right to vote, were not respectively secured protection from sexual injustice from the Constitution. Many of years have passed since the equal rights amendment was first introduced, and now women should be granted the passage of the amendment. By looking at the history of the ERA …show more content…
Paul saw no improvement and became eager with how passive everything was taking place so she got western women voters to start up the National Women's Party. Eventually, influential women like Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Carrie Chapman Catt have fought for the rights of women to be independent from men and pursue any position that they may choose. Also, the Declaration of Independence endorses women’s legal equality with men, which overturn feme covert and female suffrage. For example, Sojourner Truth, who abolitionist that supported women rights at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, was prepared by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and is one of the biggest declarations to illustrate women’s slow but sure process in women’s rights. The American culture viewed the women’s rights movement as an attack on the separate sphere, meaning that there is no more separate sphere. Feminist like Alice Paul and her friend Lucy Burns rejected the notion of separate sphere and that it is also women’s natural rights to engage in society. Nonetheless, women permit themselves by shaping this situation to show their moral dominance. One of the leading issues was education, which was granted to women in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Women's educational opportunities gradually expanded …show more content…
In the Declaration of independence it states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (Andersen). The quote above states clearly that all men are created equal, but has nothing about women being created equal. Through this I could correlate the most essential social, political and economic movements of the century. The success, as well as the failure, reveals a story of America women history that we may not be fully aware of. Although we are taking a big step in improving women's right for equality, the American dream is still far out and had not been accomplished by the women in our daily life. Women were the minority in this society before but slowly it has turned around. The League of Women voters saw this time as a great opportunity to advise women their rights that will guide them to become capable citizens. Meanwhile, women’s social equality begun to make it appearance when they made the connection of sex to happy marriages. Specifically, women during this time turned to sexual beings, as well as learning to use their good looks to draw in a good husband. Moreover they became the phenomenon of capitalism, such as investing into their physical appearance, as well as fashion and home décor.