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When the woman would start to farm, she would only be allowed to grow “womanly crops” such as cassava, plantains, and coco yams not men’s crop like yams. If she were to grow yams, her fields would be burned to rejuvenate the land from evil. The gender roles that take place in the Igbo culture, not only affect their agriculture but every other aspect of Igbo women’s lives. Igbo woman are subjected to abuse by their significant other, men are allowed to beat their wives regardless of the reason.…

Lizeth Gamino Professor Leonhardt History 300 November 2, 2016 Presentation Summary Crystal Catherine Eastman was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts on June 25, 1881 and died on July 8, 1928. She was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best known as a leader in the fight for women's rights or better known as the women’s suffrage. She was also a co-founder and co-editor of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, and co-founder of the…

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…

caused some women to feel like they were being treated unfairly, which caused them to found the woman's suffrage movement. However, the movement did not actually start until the year 1848, when two reformers named Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called a woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, where one of the reformers lived. This was one of the first public appeals for woman suffrage. Another show of wanting woman equality came in the year 1916, when Margaret Sanger…

Women's History Month International women's day is an essential day in our history because we have historic women who rock! In 1910, Clara Zetkin came up with the idea for that day on March 8th. International women's day was for united nations in 1975. Between those years not much happened. The U.N. created an annual theme in the mid-90s for women's day. In 2011, President Obama declared March is women's history month. Three examples of powerful women are Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, and…

Woman’s Rights Women had very few rights in the 1800’s; as a result, many strong women’s rights activists took a stand for women and their rights. As said by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “ We hold these truths to be self- evident: that all men and women are created equal.” The beginning of women’s rights, the women and men who fought for them, and the lasting effects are major factors in the history of women’s rights. Women’s rights, also known as Women’s suffrage, became a difficult situation with…

Olive Deniss is famous as Civil Engineer. She was the first woman to become a member of the American Railway Engineer Association . One of the first woman to obtain a civil Engineering degree from Cornell university , she found it difficult to find a meaningful job after her graduation solely on the basis of her gender .She strived hard and eventually began working for the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O)Railroad. Since half of the railroad’s passengers were woman , it was felt that a woman would be…

For many years women were thought to be second class citizens. Without financial power women felt as if they had no influence on politics, it was not until women began to use their voice they understood how much power they can have. The early waves of feminism began with the temperance movement. The temperance movement spawned from the opposition of alcohol. It started as the idea that Americans should drink less but changed overtime. This was the first majority women ran movement. Women fought…

The political journey of Shirley Chisholm is one that expanded the political dynamics to unaccounted groups of people. Chisholm was the first black women elected to Congress, a mighty feat of its own, came with campaign challenges that pushed her to the brink. Ultimately running for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Chisholm proved that a political machine could be disrupted in the roots of its voters. Being a woman, Chisholm did not let this issue define her congressional campaign…

After years of fighting an aggressive battle for equality, in 1920 the 19th Amendment was passed and women were assured the right to vote. Although women were granted the right to vote, the Lowell Mill women organized themselves and went on strike before they were granted voting rights. I’m sure that the contributions of every woman haven’t been documented in publications, media and textbooks but thankfully many contributions of women can be found in the history books. Women have played key…