National Women's Hall of Fame

Back in the 1800’s women didn’t have much and couldn’t do much. Women weren’t respected nor treated fairly. It wasn’t until the women’s rights movement that people finally opened their eyes to fairness and equalization for women. There was a woman that stood out that took part in the organization. She was not only a part of the women’s rights movement, she was an abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, temperance worker, and suffragist. Her name was Susan B. Anthony and here is her…

very similar and have some differences are the Feminist Movement and LGBT Movement. The first beginnings of the Women’s Suffrage Movement of the United States were in 1848 and they held the first women’s rights convention. This convention was the Seneca Falls Convention and the organizers were Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott, their overall purpose was to move forward in women’s rights. They mainly argued that women had the constitutional right to vote and should be treated equal to men.…

In “Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887)” Emma Lazarus’s writes in her sonnet “the New Colossus”, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” (Par. 1). Engraved within the Statue of Liberty, the icon of freedom, this sonnet defines the country of the United States. Even before its independence from Britain, the America was vastly recognized as the land of opportunity for those seeking a better life for themselves and their families. Emigrating by the thousands, many…

Stanton was a white woman, well educated, and an activist for women’s rights. Elizabeth’s characteristics will affect her perspective while writing. These characteristics will shape her perspectives because she is going to support women’s rights in her writings. In her writings, she will talk about property rights, divorce rights, and human rights. Elizabeth Stanton created this manuscript to inform people of society’s problems dealing with women’s rights and to convince people to want to change…

for the Seneca Falls Convention. This convention was a two-day event and over the period of the two days the Declaration of Sentiments was read, then on July 20, 1848, it was signed. This event was only the beginning of the movement towards the women’s suffrage movement. The next seventy-two years consisted of many battles, some won and some lost. Each battle, even 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,…

configurations of domesticity.1 At almost the same time, the field of American Jewish women's history emerged, marked by the appearance in 1976 of Charlotte Baum, Paula Hyman, and Sonya Michel's The Jewish Woman in America, and five years later by a special issue of American Jewish History entirely dedicated to women.2 Since that time there has been a flood of papers, articles, anthol- ogies, and books dealing with Jewish women's religious lives, their early feminism, their consumer activism and…

withdrew their support in fear of being mocked or dismissed. Two weeks later, the convention was held again in Seneca Falls following with an even larger meeting in Rochester New York. Nevertheless, the national woman’s rights conventions continued yearly and the focus of growing awareness of women’s suffrage…

york magazine. She than let out her own magazine, MS, in the year 1972. The magazines push for women's rights made it a best seller. It covered so many topics, from sexual harassment to politics. She carried on to publish essays and several books, was active in political campaigns and spoke out on women's issues, and was a leader in many political organizations for woman, such as Choice USA and Women's Action Alliance. At the age of 66, her husband died due to cancer. To this very day, she is a…

basketball and tennis games to compare the reporters' commentary about women athletes and male athletes. Messner and his colleagues concluded that by “constantly displaying pink on-screen logos”, and “constantly reminding viewers that they were watching women's games”, the commentators "gender marked" competitions to maintain a "necessary sense of clarity for the viewers", especially when the tournament took place in the same arena for men and women both. (Messner, Duncan, Jensen 130). For…

sponsors they are paid the same. Men and women all do the same things in the different sports, they put in the same time, they practice just as hard and they don't get paid the same. This was first brought to the attention of the public by the U.S. women's soccer team. They thought it was unfair that they won the world cup and the men lost in the round of 16 but, the men got paid more. Most women sports is actually very new compared to the mens. They could only compete in the olympics in 1900.…