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    the century. Many women suffrage have fought for sameness treatment but it seems like they are yet able to achieve that. There are a lot of questions that comes in mind when equality is display and this scrapbook seems to question ways women were greeted years ago.. This scrapbook was produce at the time where women were advocating for women suffrage but it looks like they haven’t won it yet. Since one of the feather has the caption “all we want is the ballot”, this means women are seeking the chance

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    too they became the voice challenging the wrongs of society. Women advancement of their position in society with their charitable and reform associations had made them strong, giving them the voice to call for equal rights for women. Women organizational groups targeted suffrage, child-labor, labor organizing, consumer protection, prohibition, development of settlement housing, and expanded educational and career opportunities. Women became the force that pursued rights for the middle class and

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    Next to the fight against slavery, women's suffrage was the biggest movement for rights, equality, and freedom, beginning in the 19th century. This movement not only has helped shape our country into what it is today but has also liberated other countries the same rights abroad. The idea of a woman being equal to men during the 19th century was an entirely foreign concept that was originally not taken well. It took several decades for women to pull through in their efforts to liberate females

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    During the second half of Shaw presidency the organization included many professional married women such as Susan Walker Fitzgerald, Bryn Mawr and Katherine Dexter McCormick (Franzen, 2008). The relationship among the women of the organization was strong and there were no core of officers during the presidency of Anna Howard Shaw. The success of the organization during Shaw presidency was perhaps because of her social position; she had high tolerance for discord. During Shaw presidency the organization

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    loss of property and life of innocent people. In the United States, women could not vote until 1920. It took many years for the suffrage movement to accomplish but still I don’t think women have full rights over everything that man has. There still exist disparities and inequality among males and females in every sector. Revolution in the field of woman suffrage was very challenging and competitive but strong will powered women activist started to rebel and work for the women’s right. In the book

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    Women Equality Paige Haddock SOC 120: Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility Shana Goodson 11/23/15 Introduction Promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls is a priority for the United States. Women’s equality has came a long ways. Women used to have it very hard historically, but even today women still experience some inequality towards men. In this paper it will examine the equalities in: voting, the workplace, and sexual harassment. This paper will also so how the

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    statement may sound peculiar to us because, in our lifetime, women have always had the right to vote, but this has not always been the case. Many people worked to earn this right. Carrie Chapman Catt was a women’s rights activist, who gave many speeches about women’s suffrage, which played a major role in earning the women’s right to vote. Born as Carrie Clinton Lane, January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin, Catt spent most of her life empowering women. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in general science

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    Iron Jawed Angels is the moving 2004 film that highlights how Alice Paul and Lucy Burns fought for women's suffrage. In the film, director Katja von Garnier, follows these women and the efforts they put forth as members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and later the work they did as founders of the National Woman's Party (NWP). The film showcases the trials that Alice Paul and Lucy Burns had to overcome, not just from opposition found within NAWSA, but also among society

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    The battle for suffrage was a long and slow process. Many women tried to initiate the fight for suffrage, like Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. “These were the New Suffragists: women who were better educated, more career-oriented, younger, less apt to be married and more cosmopolitan than their previous generation.” (pg 17) Eventually, in 1920, the 19th amendment was ratified; allowing women to vote, but it was not any one person or event that achieved this great feat. It was the confluence of certain

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    Post-Civil War, Northern women became increasingly active in the Black-suffrage movements in the North. They strategized that by enforcing the right of suffrage for African-Americans they would automatically receive the right to vote. Their calculations were based off of the hierarchal rules implied by the Jim Crow South. During the Jim Crow Era, segregationists feared that reconstruction would mess with the inherent order of their society by making Black men equal to White men and beneath them allowing

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