Essay about Women's Suffrage

Women were trying to get the vote for many years before 1900, however this was not a serious concern and they were not doing much to achieve this. However in 1900 this all changed. The NUWSS (Suffragists) and the WSPU (Suffragettes) were set up in the early years of 1900; their goal was to allow women to get the vote. Their reason was that women were already allowed to work on city councils and become doctors, some notable ones too such as Florence Nightingale. The NUWSS believed that if women were house owners and had respectable jobs they should be allowed to vote. This is because men who were allowed to vote could be white slave owners and lunatics so why could these men vote and

“Beginning in the 1800s, women organized petitioned and pocketed to won three right to vote but it took them decades to accomplish their purpose”(archive.com). The organized movement started at Seneca Falls, NY with a meeting called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The most influential leaders during the movements were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The Suffragists and Suffragettes were trying to prove to the public that women could be doing other things apart from looking after the children and taking care of the homes. The Seneca Falls convention was organized by a group of women who had been active in the antislavery movement. The Seneca Falls Declaration called for an increase in women’s rights in these areas, as well as in education for women and the jobs available to

Woodrow Wilson, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Susan B. Anthony share a common purpose in their addresses advocating women’s suffrage.Wilson’s Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment expresses the opinion he holds about the lack of control over women being able to vote; he prioritizes the use of logos to create an argument consisting of present fact and his own belief of how the rest of the world will see them as a nation if they do not ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Catt’s The Crisis analyzes her present issue of the acknowledgement of women’s suffrage. Catt explains that through the acknowledgement of women’s suffrage, women have been given more freedom, yet not the same equality as men. Catt wants more than just exceptions to social rules, she wants people to understand that a woman is not only an imperative cog in the societal machine, but equality should never be a crisis again. Susan B. Anthony wastes no time getting to the point in On Women’s Right to Vote; she instantly begins her speech with a strong denial of allegations thrown her way and moves right in to speak about the government basing a law off the sex of a person and how the government is not treated as a democracy. Through each of these addresses Wilson, Catt, and Anthony are divided by their point of view and united by their cause, yet only Carrie Chapman Catt’s address holds the most effective reasoning.

hen women wanted the right to vote, they used many tacticts to gain their right.

They said that the suffragettes were only a small fraction of women so ‘normal’ women were happy with things as they were; whereas suffragettes were simply mad, hysterical spinsters. Also, some people were convinced that women did not deserve to vote because they could not fight or defend their country. Their view was that people earned the right to vote by being willing to defend their nation. There was also a worry that giving women the vote would result in the decline of Britain’s place in the world as women might not want Britain to fight wars.

During the late 19th century, women were in a society where man was dominant. Women not having natural born rights, such as the right to vote, to speak in public, access to equal education, and so forth, did not stop them to fight for their rights. Women's lives soon changed when Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony played a prominent role to help bring about change.

The abolitionist women hoped after the Civil War when the fifteenth amendment was passed; The amendment would allow women to vote. The amendment did not allow discrimination of race to stop men from voting. The amendment did not include anything about the sex of a person. Therefore women were not able to vote. The amendment was a huge step forward in the right direction, but it still left out women. With the Great War taking place, important women's suffrage figure Carrie Chapman Catt who is the president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association. “Carrie believed that women had to show patriotism in order to obtain the right to vote”. Her organizations patriotic acts included “food conservation and distributed emergency relief through organizations like the Red Cross.” Along with her pariotism she kept constant pressure on the government by lobbying the

At the begging of the twentieth Century no woman could vote in elections for parliament. In 1911 only 60% of adult males could vote in elections. But by this time many women were beginning to demand their equal say in the running of the

Suffragists eventually gained enough support for the US government to pass the nineteenth amendment in 1919 which gave women the right to vote. Mainstream suffragists such as Jane Addams and members of the National Women’s Suffrage Association claimed men were too busy with work and business and it left women to engage in civic affairs. It wasn’t easy for women to gain the right to vote, both male and female opponents fought against women’s suffrage. They believed that extending the right to vote to women would destroy the home and tear down the social fabric of the country. A social influence from women’s movements would be the use of birth control.

Two political groups were crucial to the movement’s success largely because of the leadership provided by several women. These groups’ actions, structured by their leaders, had the goal of gradually changing people’s minds to supporting women’s right to vote and spreading the idea of social change. Groups worked tirelessly to educate British society about the importance of the

Ignorant women are not so ignorant after all. Women in the United States fought for over twenty years, from 1895 to 1915, for women’s suffrage. Women never gave up and showed their strength by overcoming any obstacle that tried to stop them from voting. Anna Howard Shaw was a one of the leaders of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. On June 21, 1915 Shaw was the voice of the American woman and gave a speech to the men of New York before Election Day in November. In “The Fundamental Principle of a Republic” the rhetorical principles of ethos, anecdote, and hypophora are utilized to persuade the men of New York that women have the right to vote.

Up until the 1920s, women’s struggle for their right to vote seemed to be a futile one. They had been fighting for their suffrage for a long time, starting numerous women's rights movements and abolitionist activists groups to achieve their goal. “The campaign for women’s suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. During the 1820s and 30s, most states had enfranchised almost all white males (“The Fight for Women's Suffrage” ). This sparked women to play a more emphatic role in society. They began to participate in anti-slavery organizations, religious movements, and even meetings where they discussed that when the Constitution states "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain

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

During the nineteenth and early twentieth century the first-wave of feminism, which primarily concentrated on the equal contract, marriage, parenting, and property rights of women, challenged the societal norm resulting in a chain reaction of controversy and resistance to take form. Initially there were many reasons as to why people, primarily men, were angry and uncomfortable with the rising of feminism. During the nineteenth and twentieth century it was unruly and inappropriate of women to perform such rebellious actions against men, who, at the time, were thought to be the superior sex. At the beginning of the first-wave period, men turned their focus on resisting and opposing women’s fight for the right to vote in political elections. I believe men chose to mainly rebel against women’s suffrage firstly, because maintaining the social hierarchy meant keeping women away from political affairs and

Many political cartoons showed the Suffragettes in a bad light and also warned men that their wives would forgo their roles at home, become controlling and more masculine because they want to get the right to vote. Therefore, these cartoons further reinforced many fears in society that women would abandon their families and husband because they wanted to vote. As a result, most of society did not understand why a woman would want to vote if her role was in the home and they felt that women did not belong in politics. This attitude and view by society is why I think it took such long time for women to get the right to vote.