Women's Health Initiative

World War had a greater effect on the lives of women in Canada because the Canadian Women’s Army Corps was established, women got heavily involved…

creating all these different religious societies because they did not have rights anywhere else. The women could not vote so this left them doing things at church which led women to fighting for suffrage and their rights later on. This created the women’s right group. The Second Great Awakening brought many different changes in American…

The coin was small, and its value was only one dollar, but to Betty Friedan, and to women everywhere, it was worth so much more. Every person who looked at the silver coin would see not only a picture of women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, but also a symbol of the changing world, and how hard people had fought to make that change. This was the first time a woman had been etched into the metal of a coin, and it meant that the efforts of Friedan and Anthony were finally paying off. Despite…

The fight for prohibition hindered the fight for women’s suffrage in the United States in the early twentieth century. Women were heavily involved in both the temperance movement and the women’s suffrage movement, which both achieved their goals in 1920. The temperance movement did not significantly provoke women to become politically active. It inspired liquor interests to assemble as major enemies of suffrage, and demeaned women by purposely promoting gender roles. Though historians disagree,…

was worth it. In 1869, Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Women’s suffrage association. The main goal of this association was to be able to gain voting rights for women and “make their votes matter.” In 1890, the national women suffrage Association and the…

During Florence Kelley speech before the convection of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905, she announces to the government that child labor laws in the south are too severe for young kids to handle. In her speech she uses an amount of imagery to send a sort of emotion to her crowd, and also uses questions to make her audience think about what she’s talking about in her speech. She uses this tactic to make her crowd feel sympathy, in order for her…

In the article” Why Women Don’t Speak Out.”, Liane Tessier gives her own interpretations. She begins by explaining the reasons why woman remain silence when they facing sexual harassment and discrimination. Then, Liane continues on to describe the circumstances when she try to speak out based on her own experience. At the end of paper, she offers some suggestion for the employers and unions, and emphasizes the importance of speak out. Most of rhetorical elements Liane used are effective.…

the south in order to settle the country after the Civil War. She basically organized the Working Women’s Association. She did this by encouraging working women from the printing and sewing trades who had been excluded from men’s unions to join her in the fight for labor equality. She was a delegate to the National Labor Congress in 1868, where she persuaded the female labor committee to vote for women’s “equal pay for equal work.” Although the men at the convention ended up disregarding the…

Chicano: Quest for the Homeland is a documentary that focuses on the Chicano movement of the 1960s. The better part of the documentary focuses on the leader of the Alianca group, Reis Lopez Tijerina, who led other Mexican people in protesting about the federal land as their own. This was according to the treaty signed between Mexico and the US, twenty years earlier. According to Tijerina and his people, millions of acres of land had been taken from landowning families and years later, the US…

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…