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Before the Suffragettes, women were not able to vote and the move for women to have the right to vote really started in 1897 when Millicent Fawcett founded the National Union of Women’s Suffrage. Fawcett strongly believed that women should have the right to vote but also believed in peaceful protests, patience and logical arguments. She felt that if any violence occurred then men would believe that women could not be trusted and therefore should not have the right to vote. She also made the argument that if women were made responsible for sitting on school boards and paying taxes that they should be part of the process to make the laws and should have the same rights as men. A main argument of hers was that even though some women who were wealthy mistresses of large manors and estates employed gardeners, workmen and labourers who were able to vote but women still could not, regardless of their wealth and social class. However, the progress of Fawcett was very slow and although she converted some of the members of the Labour Representation Committee (The Labour Party) but the majority of men felt that women would not understand how parliament functioned and therefore should not take part in the electoral

Back in the mid 1800’s the first women’s convention was initiated by Elizabeth Stanton, along with others who founded the Women’s Suffrage Movement. After attending an World Anti-Slavery Society meeting, where the women were required to sit is a separate area away from the men, the women decided that they were little better than slaves and decided to do something about it. (Pearson, 2017)

The Women's Rights Movement was a significant crusade for women that began in the late nineteenth century and flourished throughout Europe and the United States for the rest of the twentieth century. Advocates for women's rights initiated this movement as they yearned for equality and equal participation and representation in society. Throughout all of history, the jobs of women ranged from housewives to factory workers, yet oppression by society, particularly men, accompanied them in their everyday lives. Not until the end of the nineteenth century did women begin to voice their frustrations about the inequalities among men and women, and these new proclamations would be the basis for a society with opportunities starting to open for

The National League of Women Voters (NLWV) was established in the 1920’s to help educate women about their rights, study national social policy, and take part in local politics. In 1923 Representative Mae Ella Nolan of California became the first woman to chair a congressional committee. Culturally, the first generation of women in Congress had several commonalities and they were all white. Right to having high jobs such as in congress was very important to women because then they can give more freedom to themselves and it shows

When America entered World War I, men went off to war, and women had to step in. They were recruited to what was seen as “men’s work”, such as postal workers, factory workers, railway guards, etc. Women were finally able to go to work, but equal pay was an ongoing issue from that point on. Women started to enjoy some basic rights that male citizens enjoyed but women were once denied. Rights such as being able to work and receiving an education, but they were still shut out, completely, from political activity.

A number of women in the United States and Europe became frustrated with apparent prejudices against women in the 1830s. The women came together by focusing on a specific goals to help their quality of living. It made it hard for women to establish family and marriage laws because women couldn’t divorce and be included in property laws, which men had complete control over women. Rights/laws for women did not make any progress until the late 1800s and early 1900s. Divorce and property rights were at the surface of the women movement. The first right to be granted to women was nursing. Some middle and upper class women were being hears, as they began to gain access to higher education and some occupations mainly filled by men. Amalie Sieveking

Over the years, the groups for women have grown more widespread. Women still march for equal rights, equal pay, ect. Women were not treated equally to man, especially in the late 1800’s. “Women were still being denied public roles, rights, and responsibilities in the late 1800’s.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 1) Women could not have a public role such as, business man, mechanic, store owner, factory worker ect. The rights and responsibilities of women were also being denied. No one wanted women to be or even thought of as an equal to man. “Women’s attempts to work within the abolitionist movement of the 1830’s illustrated that they were not yet considered political equals of men.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 1) “In 1840, at the world Anti-Slavery Convention in London, women were sent to galleries and prohibited from participating.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 1) Women were not allowed to participate in any kind of public affiliation they were always sent off and prohibited from participating. “The early movement continued to address a variety of issues concerning women’s lives, including supporting the temperance movement in the late 1800’s.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 1) “In 1875, the NWSA suffered a setback when the Supreme Court ruled that suffrage was not a privilege granted by the Fourteenth Amendment, which guaranteed the rights of free man.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 2) “Finally, after having been introduced every year to Congress beginning in 1878, the Nineteenth Amendment, the Woman Suffrage Amendment, was ratified on August 26, 1920.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 2) Finally, in 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. Women could start being seen a little more as an equal, and not so much as a

Women’s Suffrage issues became prominent in America’s culture when women began leaving their traditional roles as homemakers. Women became more involved in their communities by seeking jobs and fulfilling leadership roles in which they could improve society. In the 1830’s, thousands of women were involved in the movement to abolish slavery. The first organized gathering devoted to women’s rights in the United States was held in July of 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. Elizabeth Stanton would draft a “Declaration of Sentiments, Grievances, and Resolutions,” based on the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming, “All men and women are created equal” (History.com).

Women’s roles in the American household had been the same since the discovery of America to 1848. Women in the simplest of terms were meant to run the household, raise the children, cook, clean, etc. This began changing in 1848 when women wanted to break free from the social norms and develop a social role outside of the household. Women felt that their lives would be completely transformed if they earned the right to vote; once they earned the vote then they would earn equality across the board. This desire for social change began boiling many years before 1848 when women began reading and writing domestic novels expressing anger towards women’s dependency on men. They began attending women’s academies and formed ladies’ benevolent societies where they pursued their own personal interest and activities. Then in 1848 approximately 200 women gathered together to hold the first women’s rights convention in the United States. This convention discussed the social, civil, religious condition and rights of women. There would go on to be 10 National Women’s Rights Conventions and The National Women’s Suffrage Association along with the National Women’s Party. “Although social change was a constant in the American Republic, women were expected to be the stable unchanging element in a changing world.” Although the Women's rights movement allowed the equal treatment of men and women it did cause so much pain for so many women. The Women's rights movement created equality and justice,

These women worked countless hours and had many conferences bringing other women aboard to make changes that we as American women benefit form today. “The first Women 's Rights Convention was held on July nineteenth and twentieth in 1848”. (Roak p.587)The convention was assembled as planned, and over the two days of discussion, the Declaration of Sentiments and twelve resolutions received agreement and endorsement, one by one, with a few amendments. The only resolution that did not pass unanimously was the call for women 's authorization. The thought that women should be allowed to vote in elections was impossible to some. At the convention, debate over the woman 's vote was the main concern. Even though there is still a long way to go we have come

They were a hands on organization that focused on establishing employment bureaus and health clinics, and showed female victims of abuse how to gain legal protection. These efforts by the middle-class women to help the poor and working class woman, shifted the politics towards activist government. Woman activism pushed and passed laws restricting child labor. Reformers depicted child labor as “menace to white supremacy,depriving white children of education they would need as adult members of the dominant race. ”(Give

Until 1920s things changed quickly, the women was given the right to vote, they began to attend college. The Equal Rights Amendment was proposed in 1923. The World War I was over and men wanted their jobs back. Women, though, who had taken up men’s jobs while they were at war, had proved themselves worthy of men’s jobs, so many organizations and feminist reformers took up the task to encourage gender equality.

The first women’s right organization was developed in 1870’s and was mainly influenced by the American suffrage movements. Gradually, females attained their rights to vote around 1916.-1919. The significant factors that contributed to the success were the leaders, the women’s right movements and tactics, and the women’s suffrage organizations.

Women everywhere in our culture were having similar experiences of unfair treatment because of being female, so they banded together to improve their social and professional status. Women created several support systems for each other, because they knew that the only way to bring about change was in numbers. The League of Women Voters set a precedent over 50 years ago as a successful organization made to ensure women the same voting rights as men. There are now such