Women's suffrage in New Zealand

Women in Society During the 1800’s, women were typically regarded as an accessory for men. They bore no worthy importance as their stereotypical duties were to assist their husband with housework and to labor a child. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne sets to change the perspectives on women who were treated as insignificant. The novel empowered women in various yet peculiar ways for it revolved around the life of the protagonist, Hester Prynne. Hester is a woman shunned by society due…

husbands. Due to the Boom Years the new industries provided employment to both sexes. At the end of the decade there was a 25% increase of women in paid employment (7). By 1930 there were 10546000 women in a variety of jobs and over a million in professions (5). Women began to have more say in not only their consumption but their families’. There is evidence that women’s role in…

Introduction Katherine Anne Porter was born in 1890 and died in 1980. She was one of the influential authors of her age. She has won several prizes; including the Pulitzer Prize. Apart from her literary identity, she is also known as a political activist. She has been widely influenced from the literary atmosphere of 20th. century. She was born in a wealthy southern family. Her southern ancestry and childhood played an important role in her literary identity. In The Norton Anthology of…

Jeanne’s Feelings About Her Heritage Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of Franklin D Roosevelt. She was the U.S president from 1933 to 1945. She was mostly involved in racial and social justice which is why she said this about the Japanese. “You gain courage strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you…

Purpose of choosing the topic: The purpose I choosing this topic is that we are already living in the 21st century, women are already in the fore front in many fields. Look at the world today, jobs that are not suitable for women are already been taken up by women. In the years before, we have never heard of woman president or woman prime minister before neither have we heard of woman engineers or pilots. Today, these so called weaker sexes have conquered by storm and some of them have…

The topic of Human Rights has been debated for centuries. From Ancient times to present day, countries and nations have fought for power and freedom against one another. In recent decades many rights activists have presented themselves from Women’s Rights Activists to Human Rights Activists in general. The question has been posed: Are humans good at fighting for the rights of others? The answer is controversial, but such evidence as the activists who were affected by the neglection of Human…

In the United Kingdom, an important democratic change was the right to vote for women. It might be obvious in the 21st century that women and men are politically equal but during the 20th century, a militant suffragist stepped in front of horses running a race and received fatal injuries only to acquire the right to vote. To overcome an established culture and gender stereotypes, women protested peacefully, had strong organizations and showed their productivity. In the United Kingdom, just…

they moved to Battenville, New York. Around the time they…

during this era, the one that is equally important and needs to be spotlighted more is the U.S. Women’s Suffrage Movement. The U.S. Women’s Suffrage Movement is one of the most influential and relevant dissent movements in American history. A fight that lasted for 72 years and ended in the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which provided…

the journey towards women’s equal rights. On July 19th, 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York almost 200 women attended a conference organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to “discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women.” (History) At this conference the “Declaration of Sentiments” was created. This was a revision of the Declaration of Independence that included women to it. In 1869 Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell formed the National Woman Suffrage Association…