Essay about A Brief Look at the Women's Rights Movement

Our world has been a male dominated society from the beginning of time. In most cultures, especially in ancient times, women were thought of as secondary to their male counterparts. Women were considered a possession just as a house or piece of property is considered a possession. The role of women in these early societies did not receive an education but was to take care of the household and have children. The women of the Minoan and Mycenaean ancient Greece cultures held much more roles than homemakers and mothers; they were allowed more freedoms and rights also oracles, priestesses, and political advisors yet they are also seen by men as nothing more than a mere possession.

California women and men worked tirelessly to strengthen the women’s suffrage campaign from 1893, when the state legislature passed an amendment permitting women to vote in state elections, through the final passage of the amendment in 1911. The strength of the movements themselves, passionate support overcoming harsh opposition, pushed by the people and the organizations championing for the women’s vote were the main contributing factors which accumulated in the eventual passage of Amendment 8. Since California women have begun to vote, there have been many advancements and setbacks in the other women’s rights movements, including the Nineteenth Amendment and the Equal Rights Amendment.

Society told women that they could only do certain things, like only work in the house, or not talk to other men outside of her home, or that a woman's place is in the kitchen. Like in the book Of MIce and Men, Curly wouldn’t let his wife leave her house, and she was supposed to wait on him hand and foot. He also didn’t allow her go out and talk to other guys. When ever she went out he spent all of his time trying to find her and find out what she was doing. Women of today tend to do a lot more than women back then did. Women today have more freedom of what they do. Men and women can work side by side and not have one problem, because that's the new normal for this day and age.

At the inception of the United States, women had portrayed as being in the background of history. It was written that it was men who dictated the direction this country went in, women were just another passenger. This is however a misconception as women have played an integral role in the creation of this nation and its direction. Women have had limited power and say at in the early period of the United States. Over the course of history more women had started to become more outspoken over the inequality.

For many years, women have not experienced the same freedoms as men. Being a woman, I am extremely grateful to those women who, many years ago, fought against social standards that were so constricting to women. Today, women can vote, own property instead of being property, live anywhere and have any career which she may choose.

The moment for women's suffrage started in the early 19th century during the agitation against slavery. In 1888, the first international women's rights organization formed. The National Women’s Suffrage Association was formed in 1869. Then, Lucy Stone formed the American Women Suffrage Association and in 1890 the two organizations united under the name of NAWSA (The National American Woman Suffrage Association) worked together for almost

Women’s suffrage, or the crusade to achieve the equal right for women to vote and run for political office, was a difficult fight that took activists in the United States almost 100 years to win. On August 26, 1920 the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, declaring all women be empowered with the same rights and responsibilities of citizenship as men, and on Election Day, 1920 millions of women exercised their right to vote for the very first time.

For generations women were considered to full of intelligence, Incapable of being able to work alongside men in scientific fields. Though, as the women’s rights movement progressed into the 1960s and 70s old barriers were thrown aside, giving women more opportunity to join the sciences. With this women were increasingly able to attend college and pursue professional careers or work in labs related to science. Women saw their role changing from what was in place from before, as Offred puts it in the Handmaid’s Tale “I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable”.Women then and now seeked out a way to have meaning, and many have done so. In this time many brilliant women began

Women didn't always have the rights and freedom that we women get to enjoy today. There was a time when women were treated as the lesser to men. They didn't have the option to go out and work if they pleased, and the majority of the decision making was done by the men. Women weren't even allowed to vote for who was going to be their up and coming leaders. They went from one household controlled by their father, to the next household which was controlled by their husband. They were never on their own. We did have many strong willed women who didn't see this lifestyle as fair or right, and their fight is what got us to where we are today. Ill be introducing you to these women, also to the steps that they took and the many

The gender roles in America have changed tremendously since the end of the American Civil War. Women and men, who once lived in separate spheres are now both contributing to American society. Women have gone from the housewife so playing key roles in the country's development in all areas. Though our society widely accepts women and the idea that our society is gender neutral, the issues that women once faced in the late 1860s are still here.

Tuesday, November 2, 1920, the day women voted for the first time. The New York Times called it, “The greatest voting day in the city’s history.” It was a wonderful day for women all across the country. All of their hard work had finally paid off. The Women’s Rights Movement changed the way women were seen. Before the passage of the 19th Amendment, women in many states were not given the right to vote. The Women’s Rights movement was caused by many factors, greatly impacted the society of the early 1900s and changed American society forever.

Women’s suffrage in the United States began in the nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth century until the nineteenth amendment was passed in 1920 to give women the right to vote. Women’s rights activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony protested the fifteenth amendment that was passed in 1869 because the amendment unfairly did not include women. While Anthony and Stanton protested this proposed amendment other activists such as Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe fought against the women’s suffrage movement by saying that if African-Americans got their right to vote women would gain theirs soon after. The conflict that arose from the two sides butting heads gave way to the formation of two organizations, the National Women’s Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. The National Women’s Suffrage Association fought for women’s right to vote at a federal level, they also fought for married women to have the same rights as their husbands in regards to property. The American Woman Suffrage Association took a slightly different approach by attempting to get women the right to vote through much simpler means of the state legislature. The women involved in these movements finally got their day in Washington on January 12, 1915 as a women’s suffrage bill was brought before the House of Representatives but

The women’s movement began in the nineteenth century when groups of women began to speak out against the feeling of separation, inequality, and limits that seemed to be placed on women because of their sex (Debois 18). By combining two aspects of the past, ante-bellum reform politics and the anti-slavery movement, women were able to gain knowledge of leadership on how to deal with the Women’s Right Movement and with this knowledge led the way to transform women’s social standing (Dubois 23). Similarly, the movement that made the largest impact on American societies of the 1960’s and 1970’s was the Civil Right Movement, which in turn affected the women’s movement (Freeman 513). According to

The “Circle of Life” is something that plays a prominent role in Disney's The Lion King. Focusing on the life as it pertains to an ecosystem, the lessons it teaches are universal. Everything in life is interconnected, and the obstacles that people face always impact other people. History has proven to be a great example of this, especially when it comes to fights for equality. Showing the progression of the lives of many different civilizations in relation to each other, can allow for anyone in the present to learn an incredible amount as to why people are the way they are. Unfortunately, interest in history has waned over the years. Therefore, very few people take advantage of the advantages of history. This ignorance is extremely

Miller’s work helped to shed light on the intersectionality of women’s movements, not everyone agreed on what changes feminism should bring or if it should exist at all in Mexican society. Before her work, “there existed a generally accepted assumption among politically active women that their common interests as women—in gaining the vote, in health care, in education --- cut across class backgrounds and ideological orientations.” This was most certainly not the case in Mexico, as Miller found out, being involved in the feminist movement meant that women risked “losing not only respectability but their claim, as women and mothers, to the protection of society.” Women played a major role in the protection of the longevity of societal norms, as they trained the next generation. This idea was so entrenched in the Mexican social mores that women involved in the feminist movement were considered to not be decent mothers or women. This led to a counter-movement by the Union of Catholic Women of Mexico that “asserted that women place was in the home, and equated socialism with free love and feminism.”