Hague Conventions

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elections. With an influx of homesteads and families expanding westward women were labeled “working women” as the term describes women who were employed as prostitutes in saloons (Hewitt and Lawson 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…

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 opened the first American…

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upon women to petition for their rights. Altogether, twelve resolutions were passed and signed by the people at the convention. The ninth amendment to the Declaration of Sentiments was the only heavily debated amendment by the men and women. It was the amendment that demanded the women’s right to vote. Altogether, twelve resolutions were passed and signed by the people at the convention. 68 women and 32 men signed the Declaration of…

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…

The process through which the modern girl (or Neue Frauen) evolved in Germany through the 1920s was very different from the basis which many other countries came from. As we have previously seen, the modern girl was primarily created through the United States and the United Kingdom. This creation sprouted from the feminists seeking more national equality and chance to make a name for themselves. However, without any other real culture to base this new modern girl culture around, America and the…

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…

Women had started fighting for gender equalities way before the term “feminism” was listed in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1852. They spoke up and proved their abilities to the world by marching and rebelling. The first-wave of feminism started from the 18th century, and it was mainly focused on the voting and property rights for females. The Second-Wave feminism began in the 1960s, and the focus shifted from suffrage to issues such as workplace, reproductive rights, and domestic violence.…