Feminism : The Proprage Movement And The Women's Rights Movement

In the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s, women were not given the rights they have today and were being mistreated, but because of a few brave women who gave up their lives to fight for what they knew was right, this all changed. Many of these women were educated and brave, but were still denied their rights. Women have suffered through this long battle to get what they knew they deserved and took time out of their lives to fight for what they believed in, which was to have a voice. Women wanted to get the same respect that men were given. The women’s suffrage movement was not only in the United States, but it was all over the world. It took the women’s suffrage movement many years to work and come through, but women were finally able to vote and have the same rights as men. Through their work in the suffrage movement, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony and many more changed the role of women in society.

Whereas the women’s suffrage movements focused mainly on overturning legal obstacles to equality, the feminist movements successfully addressed a broad range of other feminist issues. The first dealt primarily with voting rights and the latter dealt with inequalities such as equal pay and reproductive rights. Both movements made vast gains to the social and legal status of women. One reached its goals while the other continues to fight for women’s rights.

Women’s rights were not always a part of society as it may seem in today’s world. Suffrage can date all the way back to 1776. Women had to fight for their rights and privileges, hard and for many years. In the late 1800’s women were seen as much less than a male and had no voice. Women were arrested, prosecuted and put down for wanting more freedom and power for their gender. As you see in many suffrage ads, women were desperate and wanted so badly the same equality as men. A few women in particular stood up for what they believed was right and fought hard. Although it took far too long and over 100 years, in 1920 women were finally given the opportunity to share the same voting rights as men. History had been made.

The entire Women’s Movement in the United States has been quite extensive. It can be traced back to 1848, when the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. After two days of discussions, 100 men and women signed the Declaration of Sentiments. Drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, this document called for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women. This gathering set the agenda for the rest of the Women’s Movement long ago (Imbornoni). Over the next 100 years, many women played a part in supporting equal treatment for women, most notably leading to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which allowed women the right to vote.

The Women 's Suffrage Movement impacted the United States by giving women the right to have a voice and to finally be able to vote. Achieving the right to vote was the culminating event of the Women 's Suffrage Movement. The Women 's Suffrage Movement was also known as Women 's Suffrage. The movement was the struggle for women to be able to vote and run for president. It was also closely linked to the women 's right movement. In the mid 19th century women in several different countries, mostly the United States and Britain began forming organizations to fight for suffrage.

The Women’s Suffrage Movement of the 1920’s worked to grant women the right to vote nationally, thereby allowing women more political equality. Due to many industrial and social changes during the early 19th century, many women were involved in social advocacy efforts, which eventually led them to advocate for their own right to vote and take part in government agencies. Women have been an integral part of society, working to help those in need, which then fueled a desire to advocate for their own social and political equality. While many women worked tirelessly for the vote, many obstacles, factions, and ultimately time would pass in order for women to see the vote on the national level. The 19th Amendment, providing women the right to vote, enable women further their pursuit for full inclusion in the working of American society.

On June 4th, 1919 Women's suffrage was passed by Congress. This was later called the 19th Amendment. This Amendment granted women the right to vote. Women could now do what men have done, and they can do it just as good or better. Before this Amendment was ratified, women had been taken for granted. They had the same rights as slaves, if not less. For many years women have not had a voice in society, they had been less than a man. Women did all of the housework, took care of the children, cooked, and many more things an average “ housewife” did.

For decades, women struggled to gain their suffrage, or right to vote. The women’s suffrage movement started in the decades before the Civil War, and eventually accomplished its goal in the year of 1920 when the 19th Amendment was ratified into the U.S. Constitution. After the U.S. Civil War, the women’s suffrage movement gained popularity and challenged traditional values and sexism in the country; the increase of progressive social values benefited the women suffragists by allowing them to succeed in passing the 19th Amendment which changed the role of women in society, guaranteed them a voice in politics, and encouraged future generations to struggle for women’s equal rights.

Women reformers adopted the arguments that they could bring moral and maternal instincts to political matters if they were granted the right to vote. This new approach was highly effective in gaining support towards woman suffrage because women showed that they could bring certain things to politics that men could not. Therefore, a well-rounded political system sounded appealing to the public and seized their support. The moral and maternal approach to woman suffrage showed the public why female input in political matters would be advantageous to the overall political system. As a result, different states began to recognize what they were missing out on and eventually approved woman suffrage. While the trend was in motion, women reformers wanted to take the movement a step further. Even though they were participating in political and social matters, they still did not have the right to vote. Therefore, women still did not have the political power that they truly desired. Without the legal right to vote in politics, their power was still very limited. As a result, women reformers campaigned for a national constitutional amendment to gift all women with the official right to vote. Finally, in 1920, Congress approved the 19th amendment and it was ratified by the states. “The Nineteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution declares that ‘The right of

The Women’s Rights Movement was the fight for women having equal rights with men. (Women’s Rights) This movement was for women to have the right to vote and the right to work for equal pay. This explains what women were fighting for. On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allowed American women the right to vote. (19th Amendment) “Each individual is to have any freedom to develop by his or her own lights, and not by the command of officialdom.” (Allen) This quote states that each person has freedom to fight for what they

At the height of the movement, it involved over hundreds of thousands of women. Many of whom believed the ability to vote would open a gateway to many new possibilities that may have seemed impossible for a woman before. Any woman who tried to defy the "societal laws," that stated a woman belonged in the kitchen or serving someone else, usually her husband, was almost shunned in their community (Dubois 16-17). The Suffrage movement has been overlooked in the sense of the historic recognition it deserves; most textbooks and stories show it only as an isolated movement. "However, it is a mistake to conclude that the women 's suffrage movement was a useless detour in women 's struggle for liberation because the vote did not solve the problem of women 's oppression (Dubois 17)." More than 11 Suffragist conventions were held during this time period (scholastic.com). Women still struggle for

The Woman’s Suffrage Movement gave women the right to vote, without the Woman’s Suffrage Movement women today would not be able to vote or have a role in politics. Before the 20th century, women were nothing more than child bearers and housewives. The mind of a women was considered delicate and inferior. Women were opposed and ignored when they were bold enough to voice their opinions.

The Women’s Suffrage Movement commenced in 1848, when a women’s right convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Technically, Seneca Falls was not the first to support women’s rights, but suffragists viewed it as the meeting that launched the suffrage movement. In this convention, women and men would discuss the problems involving women’s rights. As depicted in the movie Suffragettes, women were allowed to speak and be heard but that didn’t mean that they would get what they wanted. In Seneca Falls, Delegates agreed that “American Women were autonomous individuals who deserved their own political Identities.” Also, the Delegates said, “that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.” They believed that women should have the right

The women 's suffrage movement, the time when women fought for their rights, began in the year 1848 and continued on all the way through the 1860s. Although women in the new republic had important roles in the family, the house, and other obligations, they were excluded from most rights. These rights included political and legal rights. Due to their gender, they have been held back because they did not have as much opportunities as the men did. The new republic made alterations in the roles of women by disparaging them in society. During this era, men received a higher status than women. Because women were forced to follow laws without being allowed to state their opinions, they tried to resist laws, fight for their freedom and strive to gain equality with men. This leads to feminism, the belief in political, social, and economic equality between men and women. It is the feminist efforts that have successfully tried to give rights that men had, to women who have been denied those rights. Upon the deprivation of those rights, the Seneca Falls convention and the Declaration of Sentiments helped women gain the privileges and opportunities to accomplish the task of equality that they have been striving for.

Throughout the majority of their campaign, the idea was overshadowed by the topic of slavery. Despite the large amount of men who were afraid that women would start wearing pants, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, which finally gave women the right to vote. During this time, women broke away from the tradition of not speaking about politics, which showed the concept of individualism in their social movement. Today, women’s rights is still a huge concept through the Feminist Movement, which pushes that men and women are equal beings. The movement covers many different topics, but in summary, feminists have “advocated for the dignity, intelligence, and basic human potential of the female sex” (www.pacificu.edu). Due to the fact that feminism advocates for all sexes to have equal rights, which comes from intuition, the movement is directly related to Transcendentalism. After the Transcendentalist movement, movements like Human Rights, Women’s Suffrage, and Feminism have kept the concepts of individualism, self-reliance, and intuition alive in today’s society.