Fighting For Social Reform : Jane Addams

Women have been fighting the fight for women’s rights for a long time. In fact, evidence can be traced back centuries of women’s desire for equality. Specifically, women have fought for their rights in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Susan B. Anthony was a born a fighter she never stopped protesting the morally incorrect in her first years to her last she fought for equality. Susan B. Anthony is an American icon known for her work with the Women Suffrage Movement she influenced the American culture and brought all American women a better future. Her legacy sculpted feminism and helped the community pave the way to equality.

An American pragmatist and feminist, Hull-House founder Jane Addams (1860-1935) came of age in time of increasing tensions and division between segments of the American society, a division that was reflected in debates about educational reform. In the midst of this diversity, Addams saw the profoundly interdependent nature of all social and political interaction, and she aligned her efforts to support, emphasize and increase this interdependence. Education was one of the ways she relied on to overcome class disparity, as well as to increase interaction between classes. Her theories about the interdependent nature of living in a democracy provided a backdrop for her educational theory. Education, she thought, needed to produce people who

Throughout time women have been looked upon as lesser individuals. However this is not the case. Women have played a very important part in our lives since the beginning of time. In the United States just within the past one hundred years women have received the right to vote. Hate and acts of violence against women still happen in other country 's today. This famous quote by Abraham Lincoln proves that women should be treated as equals to men:

Once upon a time in a world dominated by men, women had been forced to comply with society 's blinding notion that they were pieces of property meant to play the domesticated role of a dutiful housewife. This was true up until the late 1840s when women began to realize their worth was so much more than a floor-moping, dinner-making, stain-bleaching slave to six children and an ungrateful husband. That may sound rash and some situations may have been different, but before the civil war these women did not have the opportunities to be properly educated like men. Courageously strong women, over time, from the early 1800s up until the 1920s and counting, such as Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem have all become recognized for their dedication and persistence in bringing about changes in defending the rights of women and suppressing the bias against gender equality thus paving the road of feminism. However, even in today’s world anti-feministic backlashes are still occurring in the sense of politics, workplace, and society.

Good morning, my name is Jane Addams and it's lovely to be here with all of you. While in London with my close friend Ellen Gates Starr in 1888, we visited Toynbee Hall which was a settlement house that aided poor industrial workers. Witnessing those provided services first hand ultimately sparked my desire to bring that system of aid to the United States in order to help lower classes. When Starr and I initially founded the Chicago Hull House in 1889, we both intended for institution to be a place where educated women were able to share their skills and knowledge to the poorer immigrants. Yet it became a overall center for one to experience higher civil and social life through the teachings of education and philanthropy. Our three main principles

For years, women have fought to gain the same rights and treatment as men. Those women that have been fighting to gain equality have been held back and their opportunities have been stripped away from them due to the simple fact of being women. “Feminism is the belief in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes” (Scholz 2013). The feminist movement has been the key factors in helping women gain equal rights for those who have been underprivileged of their rights and equivalence that society refuse to give to them. A woman has every right to be treated equally to men and feminism is accomplishing this slowly. Feminism is not only beneficial to women, it helps both men, women, and children because it is allowing the communities

Feminism is most often thought of as a method used for educating society on the rights of women. It teaches that men and women are equal in every way both civil and societal. Charlotte Bunch, realizing that this is not always the case, also defined feminism as "a way of looking at the world a questioning of power and domination issues". A great deal of feminists attempt to ignore the ideas of a stereotypical women and move them away from people who don’t. They fight to find, study, and do away with biases in a world filled with ignorant men who see women only as objects and not equals. There are however, women who announce their immense intellect, wealth, and vibrant and free personalities to those who oppress them. A woman

     This settlement house became a place of opportunities for many of the poverty-stricken people of Chicago. Jane Addams supported most of this house from her own pocket. However, she got help from many volunteers, who wanted to help the poor as Jane had done. “By the end of the year twenty volunteers lived at Hull House, and others reported in on a weekly basis” (Kittredge 48). Hull House offered much to the poor people of Chicago. It had nursery schools, kindergartens, club meetings, craft classes, classes of art and music, and job placement

Feminism is giving women the idea that they are second-class citizens, and they must fight men, their enemy, for the oppression that they have received in the

The fight for women’s rights has been going on for many decades and has expanded to many places throughout the world. Through first, second and third wave feminists many gender inequalities have been erased in the United States. Since the late 1840’s, women’s rights have played a big role in shaping American history. A discussion over tea involving many of the most influential women in history started the whole movement. Women would come together and talk about gender inequality through meetings, petition drives, lobbying, public speaking and non-violent resistance (History of the Women’s Rights Movement, nwhp.org). The one woman we have to thank for it all is Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

In modern day, many fail to realize we were not always equal as a nation. In the past, women were treated much differently. They were viewed as inferior to men and were denied many rights that we have now. Women struggled to achieve their civil rights.

Women have been fighting the fight for women’s rights for a long time. In fact, evidence can be traced back centuries of women’s desire for equality. Specifically, women have fought for their rights in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Contrary to society’s beliefs the feminist movement is not about women being superior to men but for the two sexes to be equal socially, politically, and economically. Feminist want to uplift women and encourage them to find themselves outside of being a mother or a wife while also praising

Many women worked hard in the fight for equal rights. One well known woman is Susan B Anthony. Anthony had stated that the purpose of her life was to establish perfect equality of rights for women (Anthony, 1). Anthony wanted women to have equal civil, political, industrial,