Women in Society
What was the role of women in the early 1800s? How did that role change over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries and how did it remain the same? Lucy Stone wrote, “I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.” Throughout history, our perspective of women has changed greatly. Wars and human rights movements have affected women’s role in society. Women have been allowed more freedoms in different aspects of life. Three main themes that show how roles changed are women in love, homes, and society. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, love became more fun and exciting for everyone. Girls could choose whom they wanted to sleep with or date. They could give out love freely. They had more choice in their personal love lives. This caused prostitution to become more popular and …show more content…
“Not only those women with children will become mothers of the nation, but rather each German woman and each girl will become one of the Führer’s little helpers wherever she is, be it in the labor service, in a factory, at a university or in a hospital, at home or on the high seas.” They allowed women to work in certain jobs and gave them opportunities they did not have before the war.
Women started working in higher positions than they were previously allowed to. “Women were encouraged to try new occupations. We endeavored to create that wholesome discontent in women that would compel them to reach out after far better things.” Women continued to move toward sexual equality so much that “some of the abolitionists forgot the slave in their efforts to silence the women.” Women still fought and eventually were able to become doctors, business owners, ministers, lawyers, police matrons, authors, artists, and managers among many other
What was the role of women in the early 1800s? How did that role change over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries and how did it remain the same? Lucy Stone wrote, “I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.” Throughout history, our perspective of women has changed greatly. Wars and human rights movements have affected women’s role in society. Women have been allowed more freedoms in different aspects of life. Three main themes that show how roles changed are women in love, homes, and society. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, love became more fun and exciting for everyone. Girls could choose whom they wanted to sleep with or date. They could give out love freely. They had more choice in their personal love lives. This caused prostitution to become more popular and …show more content…
“Not only those women with children will become mothers of the nation, but rather each German woman and each girl will become one of the Führer’s little helpers wherever she is, be it in the labor service, in a factory, at a university or in a hospital, at home or on the high seas.” They allowed women to work in certain jobs and gave them opportunities they did not have before the war.
Women started working in higher positions than they were previously allowed to. “Women were encouraged to try new occupations. We endeavored to create that wholesome discontent in women that would compel them to reach out after far better things.” Women continued to move toward sexual equality so much that “some of the abolitionists forgot the slave in their efforts to silence the women.” Women still fought and eventually were able to become doctors, business owners, ministers, lawyers, police matrons, authors, artists, and managers among many other