Women's Association History

During the late 19th and early 20th century in America, the rise of Feminism challenged the traditional gender roles. The female authors of this time period represented realistic aspects of women’s struggles, which often reflected limitations from society and their own lives. The three female authors who advocated women’s struggles in their writings were Sojourner Truth, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton. In the speech to the American Equal Rights Association, Truth reveals that women do not have rights to present their voices in the court. Cather addresses women’s devastating labor life after the marriage in “A Wagner Matinee.” Likewise, in “April Shower”, Wharton portrays men’s criticism upon economically successful women. American female authors of the late 19th and early 20th century demonstrates the ideas of Feminism by men objecting to representation in politics, prohibiting career over marriage, and criticizing economic self-sufficiency.

It was organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and led by

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The National Woman Suffrage Association was founded in 1869, one of the main suffrage organizations in the US during the 19th century. It was a unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The (NAWSA) became the parent that combined all of women’s suffrage small and stated organizations. It was one of the largest and most important suffrage organizations as well as being the primary promoter to woman's right to vote. Women during the gilded age, progressive Era received many injustices and suffered from inequality. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) main goal is to pursue the right to vote in different ways. The organization was established in 1890. In 1890 it became necessary to combine the efforts to try to pursue their goals. Their strategy is to pressure federal government to offer women the same constitutional protections in the Fifteenth Amendment (Keyssar,2009). After establishing (NAWSA) it became the mainstream and the most nationally visible women suffrage organization. NAWSA was the largest women's organization established to help pass woman suffrage legislation. For decades the woman suffrage movement story has been written as national stories. It’s a story that has been written through individuals and collective biography (Sneider, 2010).

Cultural changes were occurring in the United States in the early 1800s that would eventually contribute to the women’s movement. The Second Great Awakening emphasized individualism, this idea expanded to people like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, Lucretia Mott who fought for women’s right to vote.  Stanton, Mott, and a few other met in the Seneca Falls, New York; they drew up the first public protest in America against women’s political, economic, and social inferiority (Kraditor 1). Women’s roles were viewed as homemakers, being part of their family and not individuals with their own rights. Women faced many challenges throughout history with not being able to participate in politics nor receiving equality especially their voting rights. Although there wasn’t a federal amendment for women’s voting, many states did implement the rights to vote for women.

After World War I, women felt more empowered to speak out and fight for their rights. The National American Women Suffrage Association grew “from 13,000 to 2 million” in little over two decades. This movement urged women to participate in events such as the sit ins and marches.

Woman 's Suffrage was the struggle for woman 's right to vote and run for office. The mid 19th- Century women in different countries formed organizations to fight for suffrage. The first international woman 's rights organization formed the International Council of Women (ICW) in 1888. In 1904, the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) was formed by British woman 's rights activist Millicent Fawcett, American activist Carrie Chapman Catt, and other leading woman 's right activists.

Even though, the League of Women Voters was founded in the year 1920 with the goal of ensuring women’s involvement in the elections and fostering women’s suffrage (League of Women Voters, 2015). Over time, the organization’s focus has

"A woman is like a tea bag-you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." -Eleanor Roosevelt. The national organization of women states was made to promote equal rights for women. The founders of this group were Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, and Muriel Fox. It was founded in June 30, 1966 in Washington D.C. The group began in 1966 and in the late 20th century it had over 250,000 members. Their normal tasks are officeholders, organize letter writing campaigns.

By 1860, opponents of the woman suffrage began organizing locally. People opposing the suffrage movement formed an organization called The National Anti-Suffrage Association. A photograph from 1911 shows “men looking at material posted in the window of the National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters” (loc.gov, Harris & Ewing). This portrays that the main goal of this association was to convince people of the fact that women were not capable enough to vote. Allison Lange also talks about the campaign that was used by this organization to raise awareness of this cause.

The following is an exploration of the interest group, the National Organization for Women (NOW). First, this paper discusses the history of the organization and describes its foundation, categorization, and the major political factors which inspired its founding. Second, it describes the membership and provides suggestions for improvement with regards to benefits and membership criteria. Next, this analysis explains the internal dynamics, the significance of influencing public policy in relation to the organizational goals, and the governance structure. Finally, it covers the organizational ecology, which includes information about the interest community participation and lobbying activity of the National Organization for Women Political

Throughout history, Canada’s identity has changed in many ways and there have been many historical events that have greatly shaped and impacted Canada’s history and identity. The Women’s Movement and women’s contribution in the past and throughout history has had the greatest impact on shaping Canada into what it is today. Among many identifying qualities like being multicultural, bilingual, and world leaders, Canada is also country that has changed immensely in the way of becoming a country that has learned to accept women, move towards providing them with equal opportunities and treating them equally. Through economic, social and political movements and actions, the contribution from women and the women’s movement have increased, changed and improved women’s rights and equality greatly. Women worked to create independence and equality economically through their contributions to war on the homefront in WWI resulting in greater workplace equality, socially through the actions of the Flappers in the 1920’s giving women currently, the confidence and strength that they need to speak up, and politically, through the work of the Suffragists including the Famous 5 to allow women to have the same political rights as men.

The New Women’s Association members took actions through intellectual methods in order to campaign and spread ideas through publications and literature. Literature provided an outlet for women who are unable to express their abilities to channel their defiance into resentment towards the subordinate status of women. The first instance of literary defiance was through Hiratsuka’s radical magazine publications, Seitosha (also know as Bluestocking Society of 1911) (Naff 99-100). This marked the first Japanese journal to be written and edited by a female.

The Women’s Liberation Movement greatly impacted Australia and the United States throughout the 60’s and 70’s carrying on to the 90’s. Without the Women’s Liberation Movement women wouldn’t have received changes in laws primarily regarding employment impacting on them moving forward in terms of equal opportunities. However there is still a there is still process to be made concerning employment and social roles for women to have equal rights as men. The Women’s Liberation Movement started in the 60’s during the second wave of feminism. Even though the 70’s were a time of change, both Australia and the United States saw women remaining in low status roles and staying primarily in the domestic sphere. The 90’s however saw a dramatic change in the amount of women employed and working more so in the domestic sphere.