Women's suffrage in New Zealand

Harriet Tubman. Jointly with Stanton she refused to support the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments that enfranchisement black man but not women. Her public activities for women’s suffrage were conducted jointly with that of Stanton. Both they were internationally very active particularly in Europe, meeting with activist of European women’s movements. Her advantage over Stanton was that she was unmarried and thus had the legal status of “feme sole” and could freely sign contract and materials…

The argument culture and unending debates might seem to have a negative effect, but can actually be beneficial to the well-being of people. Argument has caused the US to move forward as a country without destroying our well-being. For example, Women’s rights has allowed women to vote and work in America. Women gained the right to work and vote in America, due to protests and debates. Many women who had a high-status went to man to argue for an amendment to allow them…

Women have always had to fight and prove that they are the same as men. They have always been silenced and deemed as weak and unreasonable for centuries, but women activists gave those women a voice and changed many of those opinions. Many men, and women support women activists, but some do not because they believe that woman activist hate men and want superiority and misinterpret what cause they are fighting for. Women have been suppressed for many years, even in ancient Greece woman were…

She helped women think for themselves, and she changed the way women saw themselves. In 1819, with the encouragement of Governor DeWitt Clinton, Emma Willard moved to New York and opened a school in Waterford. After two years there, she moved to Troy, where she opened the Troy Female Seminary. (The school was renamed in her honor in 1895.) The Troy Female Seminary was one of the most influential schools in America…

World War II ended on September 2, 1945 when German leader, Adolf Hitler, killed himself. The end of this detrimental war was good news for the U.S. but it was the start of an arms race between America and the Soviet Union which was another reason that women in the workforce became more common. While the war was still in action and women began to take on "man's work" most people just assumed that women would just go back to their housewive lives once the war ended. After the war, women were…

The effect of WWI on women started by all the men having to leave for war. So, for all the businesses, factories, cattle and homework to continue going, the women got promoted to do all that stuff while the men were gone. Having proved the women were a match for the demands of the wartime economy, their work efforts rewarded them with better rights and greater freedom when peace returned. The same class that refused women to vote, now demanded that women served the war effort. Upper and middle…

On 1873 Susan B. Anthony wrote a speech. In the speech “On Women’s Right to Vote” Anthony is trying to ask the people to prove woman’s deserve it. When she was beginning the speech she was explaining to them that she was charged for a crime of voting at their last presidential election in 1872. In several states laws were made for discrimination against women. When Anthony quoted the Federal constitution it said “We the people of the United States…” then she goes on to say that is says we the…

Hello everyone, I am Victoria Woodhull. Being the first woman to run for president, I feel as though I have a disadvantage to the men that are running. That is why if I am elected, my number one priority would be getting the equality that women deserve. After all, what do men do that’s so much better than what women can? Is it because they don’t get their “monthly”? Or because they don’t have to spend nine months with a child growing inside of them? Men wouldn’t even be here without women! This…

article, How American’s Understand the Equality of the Sexes Alexis De Tocqueville compares how women are viewed in Europe versus in America. In other words, De Tocqueville claims that in Europe women are solely used for sex. However in America, women’s intellect is respected. He still believes that women are nowhere near equal to men. As De Tocqueville puts it, “by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded;” In this passage, De Tocqueville is suggesting that we…

“... the New Women of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date...” (Zeitz). During the early 1900s, women were considered inferior to men. Women were expected to take care of the home, children, and religion. On the other hand, men took care of politics and business (Benner). Significant changes occurred in the 1920s for women regarding politics, labor, and appearance. A major event for women during the 1920s was the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment. On…