Throughout Adelaide Hoodless's life she has made many contributions to Canada. One of the major ones was that she organized the first school for women, Household Science School, which opened in September 1895 (Adelaide Hunter Hoodless 1875-1910, n.d. pg.1). She believed that it was unfair only boys could go on to higher standards while girls had to stay home and do household work all day. So with this, Adelaide also became the co-founder of many organizations such as the National Council of Women (NCW), Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) (Stamp, 03/25/08, pg.1). She also nationalized the Young Women’s Christian Association also known as Y.W.C.A and was the founder of Women’s Institutes (ibib).
They believed in female, creative, reproductive power. Women were believed to have magic and that reproduction was the result of this magic. Paleolithic times relied heavily upon women to give birth to new members of the clan. Therefore, women ensured that the clan as a whole lives on even after the death of individual members. The role of men in reproduction was totally unknown to Paleolithic people.
Although she died before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Susan B. Anthony was the single greatest contributor to the eventual success of the Woman’s Suffrage Movement. She spent the majority of her life fighting for woman’s rights, but she was also very active in the abolitionist and temperance movements. For more than 50 years, Susan B. Anthony worked tirelessly and ceaselessly towards convincing the federal government to recognize women’s right to equality. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony was instrumental in women gaining the right to vote in 1919. Born in 1820, Susan B. Anthony was raised as a Quaker in Adams, Massachusetts.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was a fearless writer, woman’s rights advocator, and anti-lynching crusader. She literally fought for gender and racial justice. On May 4, 1884, she was asked and later forced by a railroad conductor to give up her seat for a white man. Infuriated by the discrimination against her, she filed a suit against the railroad company. The suit sparked her career as a journalist.
At the same time as the Person’s Case, women’s suffrage movement was in full swing. Groups of dedicated women were fighting to gain the right to vote. By the end of the 1920s all women had already gained the right to vote in the federal election and also the provincial elections except for Quebec. Women’s achievements were seen in other fields as well. Emily Carr who painted about Canada’s natural beauty got recognized as one of Canada’s finest artists, Mary Pickford a Canadian woman became “America’s Sweetheart” by conquering Hollywood, The Edmonton Grads was declared the world champion in women’s basketball, Women athletes like Ethel Catherwood and Bobby Rosenfeld won gold medals for Canada in the Olympics in 1928.
It was later ruled that those arrests were unconstitutional, due to the fact that it was a peaceful demonstration. Several attempts at making amendments to the Constitution were made, but to no avail. After years of protests, pickets, and marches, women finally gained the right to vote in 1923. The next point of evaluation is the Civil Rights Movement. While the Civil Rights Movement did not last as long as the Woman Suffrage Movement, its impact on American history has been a profound one.
The sports industry has never been an overly inviting environment for females. Up until the 1960’s, women’s entry and participation in the work force had been restricted. But especially women in sport field can improve the ability as leaders and decision makers. Women involvement
Tanya The person I researched was Mary Whiton Calkins she was one of the 1st generation of women to enter into the study of pyschology. She was denied her PHD because of her gender although she was a highly respected Doctorial student. Her numerous contributions to society included the invention of the paired-associate technique for studying memory, groundbreaking research on dreams, and the development of a form of self-psychology. "Furthermore, she became the first female president of both the American Psychological Association and the American Philosophical Association. In her later years, Calkins was a supporter of the Consumers1 League and the Civil Liberties Union."
Women and Minority in Law Enforcement In 1905, Lola Balwin was the first female to join the Portland Police Bureau which led the way for females in the law enforcement agencies. Women were underrepresented in policing and not able to achieve equality with the men they worked with, the positions were not equal and either way the pay. It took seventy years to finally get an equal opportunity for women and minorities. Women were hired as research studies which were conducted in the 1970’s, females in the police force was basically an experiment seeing if females could really do the job as well as men. Which came to be very true and women were very successful in different areas to were men weren’t.
In 1851, at a women’s’ rights conference in Akron, Ohio, Truth went on a national wide lecture tour, sharing her famous speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?” This speech showed people that women can be just as strong, confident, and daring as a man. She persuaded men that they should not be afraid of women because they were the “weaker” gender. She didn’t have much of an education, but acted as if she had been in school all of her life (Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), 2006). Sojourner shocked the world on how well her speech was compared to any average slave (Sojourner, 2011). Instead of going to school, she worked in hard labor most of her life.