The closure of WW1 marked a significant period in women’s history. The franchise was extended to women over 30 in 1918, enabling them to vote in national elections. However, this was less than the ‘universal adult suffrage’ they had sought, and even by 1918, it would take a further decade to achieve this. The key debate over this achievement, however, is over the contribution of peaceful tactics. Even before the creation of a specific national suffrage movement, certain rights had already been gained by women.
Florence Nightingale: Change Agent Before there was Sarah Palin or Hilary Clinton, there was Victoria Woodhull, who was the first woman to run for president in 1872, a time when women had no voice. During an era when women where domesticated beings and rarely educated, women like Annie Sullivan, teacher of Helen Keller, changed the lives of others through scholastic study. Before myself and my colleagues joined the ranks of nurses and made a creed to provide compassionate and proficient care to all, there were women like Florence Nightingale, a nurse and notable change agent in the field of medicine. Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820 during the Victorian Era in Florence; the city for which she was named. The ideal career choice for women during the Victorian Era was marriage.
Who had greater influence on the training of women in medicine after 1850 – Florence Nightingale or Elizabeth Garrett Anderson? Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Garret Anderson were both heavily influential women who played major roles in the training of women in medicine. Before these two women there were no female nurses or doctors in Britain. However after years of demonstrating that women could also be doctors or nurses through hard work they heled change the view of women in medicine and paved way for other females to join the profession. After Nightingale came back to England from the Crimean War, she published two books, Notes on Hospital (1859) and Notes on Nursing (1859).
Running head: SUSAN B. ANTHONY 1 Susan B. Anthony American Women’s Leader and Abolitionist Carolyn S. Okeefe Argosy Online University SUSAN B. ANTHONY 2 Abstract This essay explores the life of Susan Brownell Anthony and the accomplishments she fought for American women to have the right to vote and receive equal pay as men for the same type of work. Anthony fought for over 50 years advocating for the social and legal quality for women. Anthony co-founded the National Woman’s Suffrage Association with fellow feminist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Susan B. Anthony was an important symbol of equality. Her efforts of selfless dedication played a major role in the ratification of the 14th amendment of the United States Constitution giving women the right to vote in 1920.
Elizabeth Blackwell Changes the World by Mckenzie Murdock English 10th Mrs. Sharpe March 18, 2013 Elizabeth Blackwell Changes the World Thesis: Elizabeth Blackwell positively impacted the health and well being of women and children in the 19th century by becoming the first certified woman doctor, opening an infirmary in New York, and establishing a women’s medical school. I. Introduction II. First certified woman doctor A. Siblings died of disease and so she decided to be a doctor B. Women were typically not doctors C. Problems being admitted to medical school D. Graduated in 1849 III.
Women like Emma Hart Willard who founded the Troy Female Seminary in New York which was the first endowed school for girls, helped empower women to see that there can be change. Women began speaking and lecturing in the 1830s on equality and right to vote. Sarah Grimke and Frances Wright advocated women's suffrage in an extensive series of lectures. Sarah Grimke spoke with a concise confidence responding to a newspaper, “All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.” (Chafe 25) “[Also Grimke wrote that] like blacks women were ‘accused of mental inferiority’ and were refused the opportunity for a decent education. Denied the basic rights of free speech and petition, they were also treated as creatures not able to care for themselves.” (Chafe 45) Oberlin College became the first coeducational college in
She even worked very hard to write the Equal Rights Amendment. She is a very strong and dedicated women in my opinion I hope I can show you that with her story. Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885 in Moorestown, New Jersey. She attended Swarthmore College and graduated in 1905 then took the rest of the year to do graduate work at the New York school of Social Work. After that she went to England in 1906 to continue her education in social work.
Furthermore, the Civil Code of 1804 officially enshrined women to a life of domesticity (Foley, 2004: 118). Few women, however, challenged this denial, either it did not occur to them or they did not believe that they could do anything to change it. That was until, in the early 1800s, feminist movements began to emerge which sought to alter the relationship between the sexes. Some of those who attempted to do this were termed “utopian socialists” (Moses, 1982: 241). “The Saint-Simonians were the earliest and most popular of these utopian socialist feminists” (Moses, 1982: 241).
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.
Before the suffragettes there was a group of women who were called the suffragists. The suffragists where like the suffragettes however they believed in peaceful protesting which got nothing done. Emmeline Pankhurst originally formed the suffragettes in 1903 with her daughter Christabel Pankhurst. Emmeliene Pankhurst lived to see women get the vote and she later on wrote a biography about her journey to help get the vote for women. Emily Davison was a smart woman.