Women's Rights Thesis

Thesis: The women’s suffrage movement effect many areas around America, including: social expectations, economic roles, and political positions.

Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffragesupporters lectured, wrote, marched and disobeyed many rules to change in the Constitution. parades, silence and hunger strikes where used to demonstrate the need for a change in the constitution. Women struggled for their rights ,and they struggled equally to black americans who desired voting rights as well(The Fifteenth Amendment., Susan Banfield pp.11-20).

The gender roles in America have changed tremendously since the end of the American Civil War. Women and men, who once lived in separate spheres are now both contributing to American society. Women have gone from the housewife so playing key roles in the country's development in all areas. Though our society widely accepts women and the idea that our society is gender neutral, the issues that women once faced in the late 1860s are still here.

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

Women have always been fighting for their rights for voting, the right to have an abortion, equal pay as men, being able to joined the armed forces just to name a few. The most notable women’s rights movement was headed in Seneca Falls, New York. The movement came to be known as the Seneca Falls convention and it was lead by women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton during July 19th and 20th in 1848. Stanton created this convention in New York because of a visit from Lucretia Mott from Boston. Mott was a Quaker who was an excellent public speaker, abolitionist and social reformer. She was a proponent of women’s rights. The meeting lasted for only two days and was compiled of six sessions, which included lectures on law, humorous

Hillary Clinton introduced a revolutionary bill in 2007 that would have positively transformed the lives of low income women by modifying the social security act to include contraceptive coverage. The S. 1075-Unintended Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2007 was a bill sponsored by Hillary Clinton, intended “to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to expand access to contraceptive services for women and men under the Medicaid program, help low-income women, and couples in preventing unintended pregnancies and reducing abortion”(S.1075 - Unintended Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2007). Unfortunately, despite Clinton 's vigorous attempts, the bill failed to pass and died in committee. Hillary Clinton’s purpose behind this bill was to have Medicaid pay for contraceptives in order to cut down on the amount of abortions among lower income women. Hillary Clinton has publicly established herself as pro-choice, supporting woman’s choice to take control of their bodies. Furthermore Clinton stated she will “defend women’s rights to make their own healthcare decisions” (Lafrance).This bill was much more than just a reproductive rights bill; this bill in a sense unleashed women from the shackles of control, giving them the freedom to have control over their lives.or once they would be in control instead of being controlled.

During the American Revolutionary Era, women played essential roles in the defiance against Great Britain by boycotting British products and joining the non-consumption organization. During the American Revolution, women served as nurses, cooks, maids, seamstresses, some even secretly enlisted in the Continental Army. From 1825 to 1850, women were fighting for equal opportunities as men and women’s right to vote, the Reform Period. Women’s roles were similar during the American Revolutionary Era and the Reform Movement because during both periods, women contributed to the movements, by joining political protest. Their roles differed during the periods because women during the reform movements, created conventions geared towards women, exacting

Did you know that women could not vote before the Women’s Liberation? Women's liberation means a movement to gain full legal, economic, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women and equal to those of men. The Women’s Lib changed everything including, women’s lives. The women who started this all was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a mother of 4 in upstate New York. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was going through everything women all over america were dealing with.

In the American republic rights and responsibilities were the stable of keeping the society going. Men felt that women’s main responsibility was to teach their sons how to take care of property and make them good citizens. They also took care of all the house work such as laundry and making sure the children behaved themselves. It was frowned upon for women to read novels or to use their imagination and there were scarcely educational opportunities. Benjamin Rush feels women should be a complimentary partner towards men. This is accomplished by being able to write legibly, read, have knowledge of geography, be able to sing, and dance. Also, in order for their sons to be taught well women must know something about bookkeeping if something was to ever happen to their husbands. This way the eldest son could take over the property.

The United States of America is one of the most powerful developed countries in the world, with a strong economic and political stand in the international stage. Unfortunately, from all of the shine, there are spots of rust. The United States faces internal issues, such as education, foreign relations, and most importantly social policies. Recently, the United States has started to discuss more about how women in the labor market, are receiving a lower amount of payment, compared to men. This not only includes regular jobs, but high paying jobs as well, for example CEO’s. In this paper, I would like to discuss about how the International Labour Organization (ILO) discussed on the issues of women’s rights in the labor force and how they should be treated, and see if this is applicable to the United States based on the recommendation of the ILO.

I chose an article relating to the topic of women 's rights and suffrage because it was a topic from my chapter in the book. I felt doing more research on the topic could make my presentation more informative and as well as having more sources to choose from. I believe that knowing about the fight for women 's suffrage is important because it is the start of feminism and equal rights. Especially in this year, after my first time voting in this election season, I remember in history others could not. Additionally, in this election the candidate who won the popular vote was a women, being so close to making history of having a women in the highest position in our government. America has yet to have a female president, but that representation would be crucial in finalizing what women fought for in the past.

In the nineteenth century, when the women's rights movement was born, women were essentially treated like dirt, like second-class citizens. They were just beginning to gain admission to colleges. They were prohibited from the medical field and any legal profession, as well as the pulpit of any church. Women who were married had to surrender pretty much all of their rights, including the right to own property, to their husbands. Even some of the nation's founding principles, including the right to representation— in terms of taxation and any other governmental issues— did not apply to women at all, who could not participate in elections. All this slowly started to change in 1848 at the first Women’s Right Movement Convention in Seneca Falls.

Even as far back as the United States independence, women did not possess any civil rights. According to Janda, this view is also known as protectionism, the notion that women mush be sheltered from life's harsh realities. Protectionism carried on throughout the general populations view for many decades until the 1920's when the women's movement started. Women finally received the right to vote in the Nineteenth Amendment. The traditional views of protectionism, however, remained in people's minds until the 1970's (Janda et al, 2000: 538-539).

In the late nineteenth century, woman was seen as a sign of weakness and seek for equality. Some of their jobs include teaching, secretary, and cooking. The most noticeable situation that occurs is that women were never given the opportunity to voice their opinion on what kind of job that they should do. In addition, voting at this point of time for women was quite impractical. The wartime was a difficult time for women who wanted to capitalize on an opportunity. They wanted a job to prove to men that they are much stronger. However, there was hope when the U.S. woman’s rights movement began. A woman by the name of Elizabeth Cady Stanton started the movement at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Elizabeth stated that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” proclaimed the Declaration of Sentiments that the delegates produced, “that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” In James Roark book, The American Promise, Stanton and fellow activist, Susan B. Anthony, launched the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. This group was created to raise awareness to women who desire to vote. In addition, the two activists felt that they could be a role model for woman around the world by taking action. Over the years, an uprising of woman’s protesting emerges as a national attention. In addition, women wanted access to higher wages, social

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