National Women's Rights Convention

In the year of 1634 Anne and her family sailed through the ocean from England to the Massachusetts colony, on the boat named Griffin, in high hopes of religious freedom. The family hoped that the Puritans would be able to help them with their high hopes for freedoms. After Anne and her family arrived in Massachusetts Anne joined a Puritan congregation with John Cotton. John was a minister and a theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. When she was at the congregation with him Anne’s…

were members of women's organizations in the late 19th and early 20th century, which advocated the extension of the "franchise", or the right to vote in public elections, to women. It mainly refers to militants in Great Britain such as members of the Women's Social and Political Union. The reporter Charles E. Hands in the London Daily Mail first used the term “suffragette” as a term of contempt for activists in the movement for women's suffrage, in particular members of the Women's Social and…

She believed that with anarchism comes freedom of thought, expression, and speech. In fact, she went as far as working with the first Free Speech League which was rather convenient because they asserted that all Americans have the right to freedom of speech no matter how controversial their words could be. It is definitely clear that she often supported principles that were not necessarily popular at the time. However, that seemed to work more in her favor due to the fact that it…

address the suffering of women, girls, men and boys, to protect their lives, health, and to ensure respect for them as human beings. Humanitarian actors must be aware that women’s and girls’ marginalization within most societies leads to their reduced access to resources, livelihood inputs and basic services; increased family and social…

In her recent article, Isabella Kwani reports that girls at public school in Western Australia will no longer be denied the right to wear pants and shorts to class. This revision to the school dress code has been prompted by a complaint issued by an 11-year-old student, who claims that wearing skirts restricts their movement and inhibits them from participating in sports that their male counterparts can take pleasure in. Furthermore, the article addresses the dangerous stereotypes that are…

he discusses the differences between men and women in the 17th century “The great distinguishing difference which is seen in the world between men and women is in their education” (Defoe 580). This quote shows that the author felt strongly about women’s education and saw that this was creating a large barrier between men and women at the time. Defoe felt that women should receive the same opportunity at…

America. WHAT YOU ASK??? When I say unconstitutional, I do not mean in violation of the spirit of the constitution, I mean against the technical reading of the constitution, but first some background. We know that the women were only granted the right to vote after the passing of the 19th Amendment in 1920. The amendment…

which comes around millions. Completing more than half a century of her life Reid has dedicated more than eighteen years to her profession and earning a net worth of about 1.5 million dollars.A Harvard graduate, Reid is currently working as the national correspondent of MSNBC channel previously contributing…

all the movies I chose. For instance, Mary Poppins was accidentally turned into the original Disney feminist film. Although she worked in a feminine profession, she was also a strong woman with a strong message. The year 1964, Title 7 of the Civil Rights movement banned the employment discrimination based on sex and even in the movie she sang about woman's suffrage. In the first song of the movie she said, “ We're clearly soldiers in petticoats and dauntless crusaders for women votes.” Then we…

activists that led the women’s suffrage movement in the early 1900s. Women suffragist portrayed in the film are Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Doris Stevens, and Mabel Vernon. These women put their lives at risk for women to have equal rights, specifically to be able to vote. They were beaten, dragged, had trash and bottles thrown at them, and were called “he shes” for trying to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Once the United States declared war, it was expected that the women’s suffrage…