The Fight For Women 's Rights

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.

Every reformation requires a leader—someone to set an example for them, to remind them what they are fighting for, to be the first person to stand up for their cause. Each leader represents every individual in their movement and they have to be willing to sacrifice everything for the cause of their movement. As entrepreneur Bo Bennet said, “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership position.” In the women’s rights movement, there was someone who defied all standards set up for women in the 1800s and took chances for the cause of suffrage and equality—Susan Brownell Anthony. Born into a Quaker family in New York, Anthony grew up under the notion of social equality and pursued independence as a young woman. This led her to pursue several imperative movements such as temperance, abolition and her most profound and recognized reformation—women’s rights. Susan B. Anthony played a critical role in changing the direction of the women’s rights movement and its success by demonstrating her authority as a leader and breaking the standards of society for women.

Lucy Stone, a Massachusetts antislavery advocate and a prominent lobbyist for women’s rights, formed the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).

The women’s rights movement was about making equal rights for both men and women. Starting in 1848 and ending 1920, allowing women to vote. Even though women are able to vote, we still don't have full equal rights, meaning men are still superior to us women. For example, people see women as weak figures and think we need help from men. Many women  protested in order for us to have equal rights.

The fight for women's rights began years before the civil war. It took almost 100 years, but on August 26, 1920, Election Day was the first time that women could vote. The 19th Amendment was finally ratified, giving women all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Women played an important role in many reform groups that fought for its beliefs. This gave way to a new way of thinking of what it meant to be a woman and a citizen in the United

From the beginning, women have been the ones to stay at home, cook, clean, and raise the children; since then, women stepped out of their comfort zones and made a voice for themselves. As the skirts came up, the women came out; voicing opinions was a new norm and women’s rights was a huge item throughout the entire decade. The 19th Amendment was ratified by Congress, which granted women the right to vote. This was a huge milestone in the Women's Rights Movement.

Since before the Bill of Rights were even completely formed, women were wanting the same rights as men. John Adams wife, Abigail, told him that she wanted womens rights in the amendments (Carr, 2015). The battle for women 's equal rights heightened during 1848-1920 when women, lead mostly by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, wanted the right to vote (Woman’s Rights Movement, n.d.). When women finally got the right to vote, the whole women 's movement went down, but never fully went away. In the 60’s the Equal Pay was passed. Also, in the past couple years, women have started to look at getting equal pay and to be treated equal as men.

The women’s rights movement in the United States in the early –mid 19th century did not fail to accomplish its goals, as slavery was not an issue women wanted to resolve (address?)

The United States of America is a country created on the basis of freedom, however, not all freedoms were gained at the same time. A year ago, I would have never agreed with the statement "women have not achieved equality," but since then I have encountered various people and conducted my own research that supports why I believe that women have not achieved equality. I first heard about the wage gap from a social studies teacher when discussing career paths two years ago. I was shocked to hear that in 2014, a woman working full-time, on average, made 79 cents for each dollar that a working man made. This sounded obscene and I couldn't believe that as advanced as our country is today, this kind of discrimination still existed. Knowing this

From 1848 to 1920, the women’s rights movement demonstrated the first true act of feminism, founded by a group of women rights activists to combat against women’s suffrage in the United States. By the 1960’s radical feminists also known as the woman’s liberation movement once again took up the fight for equality amongst men and woman, yet by the late 1990’s early 2000’s it had begun to change, losing its primary focus of fighting for a woman’s right, and becoming a burden on women today. The blowback from feminism has left todays women to suffer the consequences, as they now find themselves struggling more than ever to keep finical stability, keep a family, and get treated with respect.

The battle for women’s rights has waged for a long time and continues even to this day. Although we have made significant progress in the advancement of women’s rights including being able to vote and work to support themselves, it was not always like this, and the farther back we go in history the more and more women were oppressed. In the old days it was quite uncommon for women to be anything other than a wife or nun. This is shown quite clearly in both Memoir of a Basque Lieutenant Nun: Transvestite in the New World and Candide. While not the main topic of either book, the authors offer insight on what life was like as a woman in Spain and France, respectively. Both authors disagree with women’s place in society and subtly criticize it throughout the text. In Memoir of a Basque Lieutenant Nun: Transvestite in the New World, Catalina De Erauso is born a woman and seems headed for the life of a nun living in a convent, however, she disagrees with this lifestyle and instead opts to cross dress, which is illegal at the time, and conceal her identity for most of her life to live as a man. In Candide, Voltaire writes about women getting raped, used as sex slaves, and having to try and marry into wealth to ensure a good life for themselves as they have little to no other options. Although set about a century apart, these two texts do not suggest a change in women’s status or role in society over time, in fact, they offer similar, but different, analysis on women’s roles

The agenda of advocating for woman rights has been there since time immemorial. Women have been undermined and discriminated since biblical times where they were assigned low profile roles and responsibilities that are demeaning. Women were assigned households tasks and were left at home to look after the children. On the other hand, men assumed leadership positions and were involved in making major decisions for instance policy making and economic decisions. The desire to achieve equality between women and men in the society has been a long struggle that started in 1850s when the earliest women rights movement were formed in an attempt to address inequality, discrimination and all forms of oppression and injustices against women. Women efforts

During the Victorian Age, many new authors entered the realm of literature, and created a style of writing very symbolic of the time-period. Masses of these writers had political agendas on the mind. In the age where feminism was quickly gaining speed novels, journals, and pamphlets were all used as tools to disseminate the author’s thoughts, feelings, and even ideals on the subject. The war for women’s rights spread to pen and paper, and no form of literature was off limits. This period saw the rise of feminist writers, who decidedly used their work to comment on the shifting political field for women. These feminist authors critiqued ideas and fallacies held by others, including aspects of women hood that people were afraid would

The power of Plath's Daddy to threaten, shock and move the reader remains undiminished, years after it was written. To the unsuspecting reader, the experience of first reading "Daddy" is a confusion of discomfort, excitement and guilty pleasure, for the pleasures of revenge are said to be sweet, and this is a revenge poem of the first rank. Revenge upon whom? Father? Perhaps, more likely, upon her husband. And her aim was true, for if anything Plath wrote damaged Ted Hughes for posterity, "Daddy" is it. From this poem, we gather our indelible impressions of Hughes as a brute, a wife beater, a vampire, even an implied racist and murderer (if we extend the Hitler metaphor to its fullest implications)

The word feminism essentially represents the cumulative number of ideologies and movements that advocate the equal rights of women on all grounds. While the concept has been present for centuries, its magnitude in the United States has only become largely recognized throughout the 20th century. In particular, feminism has had its most lasting effects through two large waves in the early 1900’s, whilst fighting for women’s suffrage, and the 1960’s to 1970’s, which focused on women in the workplace and counteracting the submissive roles assigned to women in the 1950’s. These political battles for gender equality have left lasting footprints on today’s society by giving women opportunities previously unattainable. Still, the fight for women’s rights is far from over, as today’s females face a new struggle involving the media. With the rapid progression of modern technology has come the immensely degrading trend of objectifying women. Women’s position in the media is heavily flawed, as females are seen as little more than their physical appeal, instead of human beings with large amounts of potential. This objectification is most prominently displayed through children’s literature, the use of advertisements, and sexual abuse, and must be eradicated for the security and equality of all women. Despite the decades of progress that have elevated the rights of women in this country, society will not obtain true gender equality until the media changes, since it has counteracted