Women's suffrage

Women’s Rights Progression From the 18th Century to Current Time For as long as time immemorial, women have sought freedom from being regarded as second-class citizens as their male counterparts – namely, their husbands. In home and family life, women were expected to restrict their interests to the household and family matters, while the rest of the matters were handled by the husband. Women were not even able to own property, earn wages, sign a contract, or vote in politics. In more recent…

belief that women couldn’t make the correct decision on votes and that they were not capable of handling. Some people were even under the assumption that most women did not actually care about getting the right to vote. Not only was the topic of women’s suffrage a debate but so was the right for women to hold industrial jobs. Before World War I women worked at home and as the men disappeared and the demand for workers increased jobs opened up for women. However as men started to come back from…

The Women’s Rights Movement is said to have reached its peak when women were given the right to vote, but we know this is not true as women still fight for what they think is their right to abortion and equal pay. The Women’s Right Movement began at the end of the 18th Century to the beginning of the 19th century but didn’t gain moment until the 1830’s to 1840. In response to the Panic of 1837, in 1839, Mississippi was one of the first states to grant women the right to own property with one…

because the majority did not attend college, voting behaviors had little effect, and household responsibilities remained traditional. To start off, women’s lives in the 1920s changed very little, because the majority did not attend college. During this time period, only the wealthy and middle…

Women’s Movements Throughout 1800’s and 1900’s The concept of feminism originated in the political ideas of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. This was directed to the idea that all human beings enjoyed similar fundamental rights in which people wanted to be part of. The female demands increased, particularly starting in France, which soon provoked the feminist tracts to be spread throughout. Although the women’s movement first developed in the western world, it had a slow development in…

July 4, 1776 marked a momentous occasion. On this day, a nation began that would eventually become the planet’s leading power. The United States braved the fires of the American Revolution and endured a bloody civil war, but Americans are far from cleared of civil issues. Specifically, In You’ve Got the Wrong Song: Nashville and Country Music Feminism, writer Claire Miye Stanford delves into the modern issues of the feminist movement and its relationship with country music. Country music has…

vote which was a huge accomplishment to the women of America. (Women’s Rights Movement). A group going on around this time was the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). This association formed around 1869 and would often “stir public debate through its reform proposals on a number of social issues…” (National Women’s Suffrage Association). They also helped the women to gain their voting rights in 1920. (National Women’s Suffrage…

challenged traditional mindsets regarding women’s roles in marriage, divorce, property rights, and parental rights. Her call to arms for a Constitutional amendment for women 's equal rights has been described as the most shocking and unnatural of its time! Elizabeth Cady Stanton took a stand for women’s rights in the 19th century by challenging traditional roles for women, legislating for national laws to give women equal rights, organizing the first women’s conference, and writing the…

Susan Brownell Anthony (Feb. 20, 1820 - March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and a feminist who played an important role in the woman’s suffrage movement. She began to collect anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and herself founded the New York Women’s State Temperance Society after Anthony was not allowed to speak at a temperance conference because she was a woman. She began the movement to equality in women, although we are still looked at as minorities,…

advise men to do the same. Essentially, this country music only reinforced the misogyny that Americans once embraced. Ideas of this brand are what lead to women being denied the right to vote, and the United States is no stranger to inequality. Women’s suffrage is a very real political that the United States had at the forefront of politics, and ideas of misogyny being propagated by respected artists can only lower our collective moral standards as far as misogynistic themes are…