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.
1 Women’s lives after the two world wars changed, but there is some debate as to how much it changed. Their lives changed politically, with women gaining the vote, they changed in terms of employment, as they were now permitted to join certain professions and they also changed socially as a better way of living was set out for them. It is argued that women were given greater opportunities after the wars due to their exceptional participation on the home front. However, many historians believe that this change in women’s lives was simply due to the changing times and the progression in society. The historical debate surrounding this topic is wether women’s lives really did change greatly after the two world wars, or wether their lives simply went back to the way they were before the war started.
The morality of women, and the sympathy of mothers for other mothers, such as slave mothers, is essential to Stowe’s anti-slavery approach. Throughout Uncle Tom's Cabin there is an underlying theme of the importance of the role of women in the mid-nineteenth century plantation culture. Instead of encouraging the belief that women are less than that of men she promotes the idea that they are more than a homemaker. This idea is that, as wives and mothers, women have the ability to shape the morals, values and actions of the men around them, and the power to influence the world as they know it. During the nineteenth century women were considered inferior and expected to be submissive to men; their place is meant to be in the home raising the children and managing the plantation.
One of the main points that Wollstonecraft touches upon in A Vindication of the Rights of Women is the issue regarding women and education. I believe this to be one of Wollstonecraft’s strongest points in the book. According to Wollstonecraft, individual education is extremely important and women should be allowed to pursue an education equal to that of men. This statement is extremely important because during the 18th century, many people believed that women were incapable of rational thought. Wollstonecraft states that education for women "will slowly sharpen the senses, form the temper, regulate the passions as they begin to ferment, and set the understanding to work before the body arrives at maturity; so that the man may only have to proceed, not to begin, the important task of learning to think and reason."
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.
In response to women’s contribution in WW1 Women gained the right to vote. Because the women helped the government in order to win the war by creating ammunition and Farming, this changed the lives of women by having the right to choose who is going to control the country. I can also infer that, the group called the Suffragettes has been fighting for women's rights. Because, the leader Mrs Pankhurst believes that women and men are equal and should have the rights and this changed woman's life by getting the same amount of payment as the men. This can be seen on source A1 which states that ‘’ women had proved that they were just as important to the war effort as men in 1918 women were given some form of political representation.
The emergence of women’s studies, both socially and academically, is very closely linked to the increased awareness in the past regarding the status of women and their stifled and secondary position in relation to their male counterparts. Although following the first wave feminism, in which women were granted suffrage, a heightened awareness surfaced regarding the need to recognize women as equals and not subordinates, it wasn’t until the second wave of feminism catapulted by the industrial revolution in the 1960s did we begin to see the rise of women’s studies (WOMN 1005, Unit 1 3). With the advent of a mass production economy which pushed the agrarian work force into a factory environment, the roles of men and women began to shift and change (3). The need to survive in the new economy took women out of the private sphere and pushed them into the public labor force. As a result the previous practice of passively labeling women as the lesser sex now bore an overtly aggressive stance.
There are a lot of writings of the challenges faced by the black community in the field of education. Among them is Walsh who said that equal opportunities between blacks and whites have improved since the 1960's. Friedman, Willa, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, and Rebecca Thornton stated that progress in Women's education during the 1960's contributed towards the formation of movements geared towards the betterment of women. This gave way to woman gaining rights through law in the 1960's which in turn lead to the new age of feminism and the early Civil Rights Movement. Brimer has linked improvement in educational and employment opportunities for black women to the feminist movement which got a boost with improving job opportunities and the advent of
THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN INTRODUCTION Nowadays the role of the women in our society is really important and it has always been an interesting topic to talk about. This essay is about the role of women in Victorian Britain. On the one hand, it will deal with many subjects such as the women and industrialization, family, paid work, education, popular literature and sexuality. On the other hand, it will deal with some thoughts of some authors at the beginning of the Victorian period. In the period of Victorian Britain, there already were different status between women; some of them were in a working class, others in the middle class and others were aristocrat women.
Has society and culture hindered women’s abilities to lead, and are women still constantly judged against? There are multiple ways to answer this question. Argument against: From the beginning it has been made clear to humans that men should be the protective, strong, working ones, while women should care for the family and take care of household duties. Over thousands of years of an ever-changing world, the role has gradually shifted and shifted. When women were granted the right to vote in the early 1900’s, a women’s right streak took over, and from then on, it only got better for women.