A professional career was almost impossible, and despite Britain’s ruler being female for most of the nineteenth century until 1901 when Queen Elizabeth died, women were second class citizens. In 1870, Queen Victoria had written, ‘let women be what God intended, a helpmate for man, but with totally different duties and vocations.’ Trint, S. History Learning Site 2010-2011. Women’s Rights. www.historylearningsite.co.uk [accessed 07122011] Women’s subordination to men meant that their prime duty was domestic. Children were an economic responsibility for women - providing food, housing and clothing until the child was independent and could go out to work to provide for the family themselves.
Women colleges C. Coeducation Conclusion The Fight for Women’s Rights Throughout history women have been hidden behind their husbands. They were not able to have a say in the household, hold a job with reasonable hours, or be able to earn reasonable pay. Many women would not speak up for themselves. Men took pleasure in their control over them. Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for women to have legal rights, have better jobs, and higher education, even though many men shunned her.
IAH 201: U.S. & The World (D) The Women’s Rights Movement Starting In the early 1800s women began to question their general role in society and how it is unjust and unfair. Interestingly the educated radicals and working class women in early 1800s were still concerned with the roles and rights of women, they did not classify suffrage as being the prominent issue. The idea of women’s suffrage did not become the primary goal of the Women’s rights movement until around the 1850s, and then remained the primary goal up until 1920 when women finally achieved the right to vote. Further, there were many significant male and female figuresthat played crucial roles in the Women’s rights movements that eventually led to, but didn’t stop at, the achievement of women’s right to vote in 1920. It was in the early 1800s when women began to question various issues such as their roles in society and their rights as a woman, or their lack of rights and unjust inequality in comparison to males.
Essay on the changing role of women as a consequence of WW1 Before 1914 Many women stopped at home and worked by doing the washing, sewing, and looking after their families, which were the normal activities of a housewife. Before WW1 just over half of all single women and one in seven married women worked outside the home to make money. The men were the breadwinners of the family, and were basically the boss; this was the way the hierarchy in the family was before 1914. Women in paid work weren’t treated the same as the male workers. There was a lot of sexist employers as most of them thought a ‘women’s place’ was in the home.
Explain the impact that women made on America and their changing role after the Civil War. If their role did not change would this have changed the future of the nation? Ali Sterner APUSH – Period 4 Shaw January 28, 2011 In American History, women have not exactly had it easy. In colonial times, women were to do strictly house work and take care of the children. This changed after the Civil War, giving women their right to speak up and become more like men.
Or is she the hardworking career woman that works to provide her child with every opportunity possible? It is often debated whether a woman’s place is at home with her children. So when a child suffers educationally or emotionally people quickly attribute the problem to a busy mother not meeting the needs of her main priority, but is that really a true statement? Every mother’s ultimate goal is to make sure her child’s needs are met whether she’s a stay at home mother or a career oriented mother. Women have always been held higher in expectations than men, when it comes to parenting.
Lazaro Aguilar The Identity of Latinas Over the past one hundred years women’s rights has grown exponentially, but one group women that still struggles today is Latinas. Traditional expectations of Latinas have limited their pursuit of higher education and leadership positions in the work force. Their family and cultural expectation are to be the house wives that care for their family and to be submissive to their husbands. Even though all these expectations have limited Latinas, they are making progress to change their identity through determination and support from the community. The traditional roles that are expected of Latinas in the family household are very historic compared to the way women are now.
The Chrysanthemums Elisa’s life in the story The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck appears to be normal, but deep down inside Elisa feels trapped by her life’s circumstances. Elisa is portrayed as a strong woman however, her place in society as a married woman keeps her from pursuing her true passion, which is traveling. The setting for the short story is early 20th century America, a time period where a women’s gender determined her role in society. Women were expected to live as housewives with their husbands, the thought of a women living the life as a traveler at that time was inconceivable and challenged gender norms. Elisa was not only trapped by the time period and society’s expectation of her gender role, but also by her marriage.
Mrs Linde has had to work hard and was not afforded love and children which she longed to have. She took care of her mother and brother as her own but still desired more. Once her circumstances had changed she set out to acquire that which she had lost. When Mrs Linde is introduced in Act I, we can immediately see she is a woman who has been through a harder time and worked hard to have a meekly accommodating life. She is more insightful of her surrounding than Nora Helmer.
The Life You Save May Be Your Own Reflection The story “The Life You Save May Be Your Own Reflection” took many reads to figure out and analyze. First, I took a look at the characters. The old Lucynelle has nothing in her life besides her daughter and her crumbling farm. She loves her daughter and does everything for her. Although, she was in a rush to get her married.