Women Struggles During The 19th Century

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.

In the early days, women didn’t shared the same rights as men because women were seen as maintaining their position at homes and leaving men in politics just because they were seen as delicate compared to men (which in other words showed women unequal to men). However, it was just a matter of time when women realized that they’re not receiving their basic rights in the United States. This lead women fight against inequality but, it wasn’t easy at all because they had to face long struggle known as women’s suffrage movement that give the women right to vote. That’s why the 19th amendment was the results of decades of efforts that women put in order to get granted officially with the right to vote in the form of an amendment to the constitution. Which states that “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account for sex.” However, it’s important to know that women didn’t see the right to vote just as the opportunity to participate in the process of choosing the leader of the country but instead, they saw the right to vote as a symbol of recognition. Due to the fact that, it will give them and the others the recognition of their existence in the nation along with giving them the right to speak against the events and matter that will affect their life (Cote). I believe that the 19th amendment about the voting rights of women was passed mainly because several generations of women's lectured,

Darkness reigned over America as women fought for their freedom. Women suffered from discrimination based on gender for decades, always subordinate to men. This led to protests across the nation during the Progressive Era, and started a 72 year long dispute. After years of discrimination, an amendment finally passed in the states granting women more freedoms and less gender discrimination. Due to the change, America was led into a better future. The Nineteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was finally passed which legalized women’s right to vote and created a voice for women.

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.

The 19th amendment was the true beginning of the women's fight for their rights, because the right to vote provides a powerful voice. In the twenties, women were discriminated - sadly, they still are - so society didn't let them vote. However, women didn't accept it, and they began to fight for their right to vote. Senator Aaron A. Sargent introduced the Nineteenth Amendment to the Congress, which prohibited denying the right of vote to U.S. citizens based on their sex. In 1919, the Congress passed the amendment, and in 1920 it was ratified. Today, women not only can vote, but they also have participation on the government, for example Madeleine Albright. She was the first woman that became the Secretary of States on the United States. Even

Women have come a long way ever since the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920 and thereafter with the Equal Rights Amendment Act in 1972 to the U.S Constitution. After decades of struggling and protesting, the 19th Amendment was passed and ratified to grant women the right to vote. Fifty-two years later worth of revisions and persistency, the Equal Rights Amendment was ratified in which it declared that everyone had both Human and Civil rights in the States regardless of sex. Not only did these amendments have an immense impact on the lives of women and sequentially with the rest of the citizens of this nation, but on the people of today’s century. Women have done a tremendous job in proving society wrong about the roles women are

Passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was a milestone for which many had struggled, it had taken years of agitation and protest to finally achieve this milestone. Female supporters of women suffrage organized, petitioned, and picketed to win the right to vote, but it took them decades to accomplish their purpose. By 1920, the American electorate had changed forever, but many argued that giving the right to vote to women wasn’t going to be enough. Women wanted independence, equality, they wanted the right to buy a house, practise blue collar jobs, they wanted to escape their domestic, housewife stereotypes. They proved themselves when the situation called for it; they served as nurses in all the wars, provided food, they served as telephone operators, journalists, and over 25 000 U.S women served in Europe during World War l. Had they not been successful in providing for the war, had they not been supportive and had they chosen to stay at home like they had been taught to do, this amendment would never pass. While both World Wars were and still are a very low point in history, it was nesessary for the enchancement of “equality”.

Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest.” (19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920)). The only people that were allowed to vote in the early years of the United States were white males who owned land; the 19th Amendment changed history forever, it allows suffrage from women. The privilege of permitting women to vote caused distinct opinions due to the fact that women were kept away from politics since they were not supposed to take part in male roles. The participation of females in politics altered their lives, they voted and a few years later also ran for office (Women’s Equality Day:

The 19th century in the American West encompassed a time of expansionist ideals, both in territories and public conceptions. Various factions that had hereto been silenced experienced heightened opportunities in this venture out west. Notably, among these groups that gained freedoms were women, specifically those of the Caucasian ethnicity. As pioneers moved west, the idea of women’s domesticity begun to diminish by virtue of laxed social regulations coupled with the substitution of the brick and mortar home with the covered wagon. This withdrawal from the stringent systems enforced by the patriarchy of the day would allow the women’s development both within and without the spheres previously barred from their reach.

19Th Century Britain was an overarching Patriarchal exemplary which monopolized power and privilege for men. Under the patriarchal rule of the 19th century social standards dictated a women’s standpoint in a community. In North America and Europe women and men were taught to be expected to fill different sectors and roles in society, men were expected to lead a public life; working in factories, socialising with other men in public or meeting at bars clubs or sporting events. Women were expected to live a submissive life tending to others and completing homely duties. Consequentially, women of the early 19th century had little or no opportunity for education. Education was seen as subversive, it was a pervasion of the social order. Women were shut out of political debate, denied the vote and were property of men by law. However the 19th century signified a turning point for the patriarchy, Liberal influence begun the slow dismantlement of a political structure championed for centuries. Liberalism had beguiled exasperated, supressed women. Acceptance of social norms began to falter and traditional roles were eschewed. The contemporary adage that women were fighting, attending political debates and speeches, or conversing outside matters concerning of the home stated such to be gauche and un-lady like. Women contested such,

The oppression of women was immensely noticeable in the 19th century. The oppression these women suffered wast not only present in their duties at home, but made its way into womens health that caused horrific medical issues to go untreated. In that century, women was constantly misdiagnosed. They suffered from postpartum depression, and postpartum, like any other woman's disease, was treated as “illness of the womb”. Gilmar's story reaffirms the unfair medical treatment these women received, which in the end, costed her sanity and resulted in the protagonist going mad. By the end of the story the narrator was very mentally ill. She stripped off all the wallpaper in the room, “set the women free”, and started creeping around.“I've got out at

It would be a huge understatement to say that many things have changed when it comes to women's rights, positions, and roles in our society today since the 19th century. Actually, very few similarities remain. Certain family values, such as specific aspects of domesticity and performance of family duties are amongst the only similarities still present.

Due to women’s nature and lower social status, they had few opportunities to perform and compose music. More precisely, women’s role in the 19th century was to stay at home to do housework; there were unlikely to work outside. Even though some women were very intelligent in music, they had many restrictions in musical composition. For example, Amy Beach, who was a child prodigy, was restricted her public performance to one solo recital each year and published her works under a different name. Also, there may be some great female composers in history; however, what they had created was an ephemeral existence and rarely woven into the fabric of national life. It means that some women’s great works were underestimated or ignored. Hence, women’s

Mary Wollstonecraft was a moral and political philosopher of the early eighteenth century. Some may consider her the “Mother of Feminism” because of her major contributions to several women 's equality movements. Wollstonecraft writing mainly regarded woman and their rights. Her most well-known piece of work was A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) (Tomaselli). Growing up, Wollstonecraft did not have the best the best home life. She was abused by her alcoholic father on a daily basis. Perturbed by the actions of her father and by her mother’s death in 1780, Wollstonecraft set out to earn her own livelihood. She spent many years advocating for equality of women in modern society. Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society, a chapter from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft analyzes wealth and inequality among society as we know it. She believes that the only way to gain morality in our society is to bring equality among men and women. Without equality, there no morality exists. Wollstonecraft strongly believes that women should be able to take care of themselves and be independents. However, because of the inequality that exists within society, it is hard for women to do so. It can be assumed after reading that the root causes for the experienced by women in the eighteenth century are, inequality, and wealth. Because of these two root