These major changes in women’s rights begin approximately 165 years ago. Although there have been many major events in the women’s movement, below is a timeline of four major events that I believe to significant. 1848: Five women, including young housewife and mother Elizabeth Cady Stanton, are having tea when the conversation turns to the situation of women in America. Within a week, they organize a two-day convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., to discuss women's rights. There, participants sign a Declaration of Sentiments, which calls for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women.
It was under the leadership of Alice Paul. In order to convince President Wilson and Congress to pass a woman suffrage movement, they had to undertake radical actions. In 1920, due to the combine efforts of the NAWSA and the NWP the 19th Amendment was ratified. It gave women the right to vote. This victory was considered the greatest achievement by women in the Progressive Era.
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. Keywords: Susan B. Anthony, abolitionist, women’s rights, equality SUSAN B. ANTHONY 3 Susan B. Anthony American Women’s Leader and Abolitionist Susan Brownell Anthony, born on February 15, 1820 to Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony was an accomplished and prominent American women’s leader and spent most of her life advocating for women’s social and legal equality. Fellow feminist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) and Anthony co-founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association of which Anthony first served as vice president and later president. Anthony’s maternal grandfather, Daniel Read fought in the American Revolution, later serving in the Massachusetts legislature while her father was a strict but open-minded cotton manufacturer and abolitionist. Anthony’s
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.
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
After Nightingale came back to England from the Crimean War, she published two books, Notes on Hospital (1859) and Notes on Nursing (1859). With the support of wealthy friends and John Delane at The Times, Nightingale was able to raise £59,000 to improve the quality of nursing. In 1860, she used this money to found the Nightingale School & Home for Nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital. She also became involved in the training of nurses for employment in the workhouses that had been established as a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. This was a critical long term contribution to medicine as it helped professionalise nursing which was once associated with working class women.
For years these women worked hard as activists for women’s rights and in August of 1920 the 19th Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote. The amendment stated that, ““The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex” and “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.””(history.com) Eastman wrote her article, “Now We Can Begin” in 1920 to show her audience that not only did women just win the right to vote but now women had a voice that could be and would be heard. Having grown up before 1920 and seeing the little respect that women had,
A key statement of principles and arguments for women’s rights This article is about Elizabeth Cady Stanton who helped organize the first women’s convention to fight for women’s rights in society. The first formal speech she addressed was September 1848. At the convention Stanton arguments were geared towards women rights in society, she also incorporates appeals to women moral authority and the entangled ideology of gender difference. First, we learn that Stanton is brought up in a wealth-privileged family. This lays a platform to the public sphere, which is believed as a space reserved for men.
3) This was a major accomplishment for all women who fought for equality B. Seneca Falls Convention 1) A convention in Seneca Falls New York organized by a group of Quaker Women discussing the role of women in society. 2) The Declaration of Sentiments was prepared by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 3) Only 100 out of 300 signed but this was still another step forward for women. C. League of Women Voters (NAWSA) 1) Carrie Chapman Catt was a key woman in winning women’s voting rights. 2) In 1916 she revealed her “Winning Plan” and was backed by the House of Senate.
– The Suffragette Movement Extended Essay: Critically describe and analyse the Women’s Suffrage Movement between 1905 and 1918, identifying the salient events, aims and tactics of the different Suffrage societies, the attitudes of the different political parties; comparing and contrasting different historical viewpoints. In his book “The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign 1866 – 1928”, Harold L. Smith writes that “The women’s suffrage movement was a watershed in British women’s history. It brought women together in a mass movement unparalleled in British history.” (Smith, 1998). Although this may be generally true, any in depth study of the women’s suffrage movement, particularly during the ten years between 1904 and 1914, will show that far from being united, the various suffrage societies were divided, both in their aims and in the tactics employed to achieve these aims. There were divisions between the groups’ aims regarding issues of class, party allegiance, social culture, morality and national identity.