She is leading mass movement in her country and around the world called Young Girls Transformation Project. She is unlocking the commitment of young girls that want to make a change in their life. She was once a young African girl who never thought she would make it to college. Leymah is a woman that is very similar to young women of today’s generation. She believes providing you with education will give young woman a better life.
Many debates have happened whether or not these women approach feminism for their time period. The answer to that is ambiguous and depends on how the reader takes in their writings. One can say that even though Wollstonecraft is so obviously pining for co-education, and in that way to be equal to men, she is not promoting equality for anything else. By not wanting to be equal in anything else, how can she be approaching feminism? Pizan so obviously from the start of her writing, introduces how women should behave (from the perspective of a princess), so that her actions shall be beneficial to her and her husband.
Women became more important members of society as depicted in (doc. A). They were to instill a sense of national pride in their children. Not all women were satisfied and wanted a bigger leap towards equality. Molly Wallace believed that “if [taught] to read, why not to speak?” (doc.J).
So this has contributed to how we see society today, people notice girls doing better in school and genuinely how people see education. Sue Sharpe researched and investigated the ambitions of girls in the 1970s and the 1990s and compared them. Her results showed a major change in the way the girls saw their future. In 1974 Sharpe interviewed girls and resulted in low aspirations such as wanting children, marriage, and love as their main priorities. By the 1990s Sharpe went back to the same school and interviewed girls again and they had changed their priorities to careers and being able to support themselves by being more dependent rather than relying on a husband.
Through perseverance and a passion for her work, Addams was able to typify image of a progressive reformer as well as achieve her goals like help immigrants learn English and American culture, and to support families that were struggling both physically and mentally. But this was no easy feat as the young woman had to face many obstacles and stay strong to build the settlement house known as Hull House. Progressive reformers pursued for a solution to the problems created by industrialization and urbanization. The reformers wanted to protect working people, and close the gap between social classes. Their main focus was education, as well as focus on family and women’s suffrage.
Past Struggles Paved the Way for Women Today American History Since 1865 Gretchen Henderson January 22, 201 Since biblical times, women have been subjugated to allowing others to make decisions for them. There has been a series of assumptions and usurpations of power over women. This is because women were falsely deemed as the weaker gender and referred to as the “weaker sex” and not being able to make life’s decisions on their own. However this thought of reasoning limited the power of women. Therefore in the end of the 19 century things were about to change and women begin to fight for more rights.
U.S. Presidency April 8, 2010 ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One of the greatest issues surrounding Eleanor Roosevelt’s career, is the debate of how influential she really was during the presidency of her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt. Eleanor’s influence was profound but it had important limitations. She used her position as first lady to bring attention to things that needed attention brought to like women’s rights and civil rights. Even though she wasn’t able to accomplish everything she wanted to, she made sure she did whatever she was capable of doing to make changes for America’s future. Eleanor Roosevelt grew from being a shy, awkward child, into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged.
She wanted her family to have the same as she did. Catherine was good at increasing her central governments. She believed in education for girls. If it wasn’t for her girls probably wouldn’t t be able to go to school and get an education. Catherine the great established and developed the
Newman (1995:268) puts it that women have been conditioned by society into believing that “having children is a primary source of self-identity”. To date, motherhood is viewed as a woman’s basic mission and an inseparable part of her nature such that the link between a mother and a child is often taken for granted. Women are supposedly drawn into motherhood by their inner instincts, which also guarantee their children’s healthy growth and development. This natural ability is often credited for the close relationship mothers usually have with children and supposedly makes the woman the best possible nurturer. 3.
6. Research questions/hypothesis Research questions - Does a girls’ formal education effectively influence and prepare women to become leaders? - How much influence does formal education have on girls’ and later women’s self-esteem? - What influence does self-esteem has on women motivation for leadership? - What are the factor structure of girls’ education, girls’ self-esteem and women’s leadership?