Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Changes in Gender Roles Changes in Social Structure The United States • Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) fought for women’s rights to vote, obtain professional jobs, participation in public affairs, and formal education in the Seneca Falls convention in New York 1848 • During WWII women entered the work force to replace men who went off to fight and kept their jobs after the war • The Nineteenth Amendment allowed suffrage regardless of sex • African slaves were liberated 1865 in the conclusion…

After the end of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s, the new era brought new problems that desperately needed solutions. The progressive reforms made in the late 1800s and early 1900s forever impacted the United States. Some of the biggest progressive reforms were made in the women’s rights movement and the child labor movement. Arguably, the biggest reforms of the progressive era are the reforms made in the women’s rights movement. Before people starting making these dynamic…

the ones lost, paved the way for women to have the freedoms we do today; thanks to those amazing women we have our rights to vote, to work, and to be considered a valuable member of society, each battle was well worth it(McMillen.) Before Elizabeth Cady Stanton and some of the other amazing women that paved the way…

Marquette Jones Susan B. Anthony Trial Paper In November of 1872 Susan B. Anthony was arrested on account of illegal voting. At this point in time women were not allowed to vote, and Anthony found this to be injustice. She argued that the Fourteenth Amendment gave citizens more privileges which women should be entitled to. She worked hard to fight for what she believed in, and had also written many letters prior to her court date. Susan Brownell Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams,…

Women 's right has been a very significant throughout history. Women have earned their right s through the women 's suffrage movement by writing the declaration of sentiments and having a law passed the gave them their right 's to vote, own property and have rights that men have by being able to work were they could. Women have been assigned different roles that they have to commit to were the men basically have all the authority and women have to follow the virtues of The Cult of Domesticity…

The life of the American people during the nineteenth century was very difference from what people are experiencing in today society. Living a life during this time would be a lot more complicated then what people can imagined, especially for women. The people during the American colonial period were treat men above women. They all think that men are the one who supposed to be the one who in charge every things. The role of the a man in this society was the person who work and have absolute…

The life style of the average women in the late 1800’s was a very plain and dull for the most part. Their lives were very linear and consistent throughout this time. Including; waking up and getting the kids ready for school, making some breakfast for the family, making sure the house is clan and tight, cooking lunch or the supper for the night. If they lived on a farm then they would also help tend to the crops and the livestock they have. This way of living was the stereotype for how women…

The history of a woman’s role in American society has always been a dynamic and constantly changing one. The Cult of Domesticity and Republican Motherhood were prominent ideas in the 18th and early 19th centuries that encouraged women to stay home and perform menial tasks. This notion of separate spheres between men and women began to be contested as the 19th century progressed. Beginning with the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 and continuing throughout the Gilded Age, society’s views on women…

It’s been over 100 years now that women have been fighting for equal rights to their male counterparts, but it’s been even more years that women have had to struggle with being treated lesser than men under most circumstances. From being confined strictly to the house as a wife and mother, to working under extreme conditions with very little pay, to working in the same conditions as men but with less pay… It’s very obvious that women made a lot of much needed progress in the last century. While…

Women today have flourished despite years of continuous setbacks. Women today have the right to be whoever they please, a teacher, a doctor, a CEO of a big company, and even run for presidency. These ideals would have been a crazy notion in the 1870’s where women were considered inferior to men. But women are so much more than that, and they showed that through hard work and dedication they could accomplish what men could, however this process would not be any easy one. Women were fighting for…