Suffragette

World War I had an impact on Australians and glorified the efforts of the ANZAC soldiers. However, World War I benefited other demographics such as Australian women, and allowed opportunities for them to contribute greatly to the war effort. The First World War had an impact of women socially, politically and economically. Organisations gave women the opportunity to use their skills from their traditional roles to assist with the war effort from the homefront. Many women volunteered in…

Women's suffrage is good although it might sound bad because it might sound like suffer. In 1848 the fight for women's suffrage began. Right away there was a “Conservative” path. This method included going state by state and asking each individual state to pass their law. This was the safer alternative but took a long time. It was called the American Woman Suffrage Association or AWSA and was lead by Carrie Chapman Catt. There was a second way to get women’s suffrage which was the “Radical” path…

From 1848 to 1920 thousands of women in the United States fought to attain the same civil and political status as men, including the all important right to vote.They had a lot working against them victorian era scientists argued that women were by nature inferior to men, even claiming that the shape and size of female skulls were evidence of their weaker brainpower. Sadly early women's rights activists such as elizabeth cady stanton and susan b anthony would die before they could see their end…

The women's movement during the 1910’s and 1920’s raised a lot of opinions and concerns. This movement was a diverse social movement seeking equal rights and opportunities for women. Progressives worked hard to help with women gaining the right to vote. There were many different woman’s suffrage groups that wanted equal rights such as the National Woman’s Suffrage Association and the American Woman’s Suffrage Association which joined together to form the National American Woman’s Suffrage…

During my visit to the Museum of the City of New York, I went through many exhibits of different activist movements.. In the end, I chose the exhibit discussing the issue of women suffrage. Women suffrage means a woman’s right to vote. One artifact of the exhibit that caught my eye was the woman suffrage flyer. This was a flyer that was distributed throughout the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn during the 1910’s. It was printed in an effort to raise awareness of the fact that many women did…

Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement.The first method used is they set up a parade in Washington, DC and Woodrow Wilson attended this. There were large crowds of drunk men who began yelling, throwing bottles at women and many other rude and destructive things. Hundreds of women were marching and when the crowd attacked these women 100 went into the hospital. The police seemed to do nothing about the situation but this went into the…

Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. One method was a parade in Washington D.C. when the president arrived. There were hundreds of women who held up signs and banners to catch the eyes of men and women along the streets. Soon they got large crowds filled with men drinking which resulted in yelling and bottles being thrown around. After, the crowds attacked and left many women in the hospital. But, all of this chaos made the front pages…

The Women’s Suffrage Victory By: Michael Delahanty For what reasons did people oppose women's suffrage? Why did many Progressives, who supported other reforms, oppose it? People opposed women’s suffrage because they said that it would rid the domestic tranquility a woman created when she wasn't’ able to vote. Men thought that women had weak minds and delicate temperaments that couldn't survive the ways of the public life. They thought that the politics at the time would frighten women or…

vision about women that suffragettes showed and represented. This new type of women who rebelled against the ideals of women to fight for equality, contrasted with the traditional role of women added to being considered inferior, in this line of thinking about inequality arguments against women suffrage and suffragettes emerged. Those arguments went from defending the existence of physical differences between sexes, to relate the behaviour and motivations of the suffragettes to mental issues;…

different situations that suffragettes went through, providing the feminist point of view of the author in regards of society; a second edition of this book was published in 1915. The depiction of suffragettes from the inside and her personal point of view were key elements that Evelyn Sharp used to express her view about the general situation of women’s suffrage. I considered for this analysis some short stories that, in my opinion, depict the situation of suffragettes in terms of politics, law…