It seems very sad to me that men in this country believe that they own or have the right to tell women or even another individual what they have to do or how they have to behave. Women were given the right to vote in the United States in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was passed and ratified into the constitution. This right for women to vote became known as the women’s suffrage right. Women did not even have equal rights to men in the United States until 1972 when an Equal Rights Amendments was passed into law. Women had been fighting for equals to men since 1923 and continue to fight to this day to have the Equal Rights Amendment ratified into the constitution.
C. Fuller American History Since 1865 The evolution of Women in Society Instructor Anderson August 11th 2012 Although women had rights they were not always treated equally, even in today’s society. Women’s rights started the evolution of women in society the war pushed women into the world of working outside of the home. Women have a constitutional right to be equal to anyone else on this planet. From Seneca Falls the first ever women’s rights convention to the day the amendment was refined to give women them the right to vote. “It took seventy-two years after that 1848 convention for women to gain the right to vote in this country.
Throughout history, however, women have had many attempts to gain their independence from men. For example, the National Women’s Rights Convention in 1850, the American Women Suffrage Association, the Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the National Organization for Women (NOW) were created to benefit women. These different attempts are named the different waves of the Feminist Movement. The book The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, published in 1963 and spoke of middle class women being outraged at the fact that women were not allowed equality. The outrage triggered the Second Wave Feminist Movement, a more modern movement, and the fight for women’s sexual freedom and equal opportunities in the workplace.
Running head: Equal Treatment of Women Equal Treatment of Women Trudy Glefke Ashford University HIS: 303 Instructor 08.20.2012 Equal Treatment of Women In the United States the struggle for the right to vote began for women in the early 1830’s and became intertwined with the struggle to abolish slavery. In 1869 a rift developed among feminists over the proposed 15th Amendment, which gave the vote to black men: some women believed that the amendment would strengthen their cause while others believed it would present a set back. Although equality for women was implied in the 14th Amendment of 1868, most of the states continued to restrict or prohibit women's suffrage. (Flexner, 1996).The proposal for the 19th Amendment was first
That event inspired Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to discuss the development of a women's rights movement in the United States. During the 19th century, women were not allowed the same freedoms men. Women could not vote, hold elective office, attend college or even have a job. If women were married they could not even divorce their husband if he was abusive. The first Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York in July of 1848.
Their focus was lobbying for a constitutional amendment to secure the right to vote for women. Suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who tried securing the vote on a state-by-state basis, had originally sought such an amendment. (Cott). Although in the end Paul did manage to get said amendment passed, she still struggled and battled with doing so for many years of her life. Paul gained a lot of followers and momentum through her very notorious silent picket strikes outside of the White House (“Angels”).
“Initially, women energized by Friedan’s book joined with government leaders and union representatives who had been lobbying the federal government for equal pay and for protection against employment discrimination.” They had established that polite requests were not working and they would need their own group, basically an equal to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People but for women. In June of 1966 the NOW was born, (History.com). In 1966, Betty Friedan wrote the NOW statement, “We, men and women who hereby constitute ourselves as the National Organization for Women, believe that the time has come for a new movement toward true equality for all women in America, and toward a fully equal partnership of the sexes, as part of world-wide revolution of human rights now taking place within and beyond our national borders. The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men…” (NOW.org). Since 1966, NOW has been working to make sure that the partnership with men and women is
People in this movement believed alcohol caused a lot of problems. Because she was a woman she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies. Because of this she was inspired to fight for women’s rights, especially the right to vote so that they would be taken seriously in politics.
Prior to the fight for voting rights that came to dominate the nineteenth century women’s movement, both male and female activists began a campaign for women to have equal opportunities of varying proportions, as outlined in the 1848 “Declaration of Sentiments” (InfoPlease). As this declaration reveals, 19th century women suffered many injustices and inequalities; especially African American women, who were still battling prejudice and abuse from others in spite of their newfound freedom. African American women, many of whom endured unchecked sexual exploitation and abuse at the hands of their male owners several years prior, had the most to gain, but also stood the furthest away from equal rights as they were marginalized on two counts: that of their femaleness and that of their blackness. Challenges for black women in this era were not limited to the prejudice and discrimination that met them even after they achieved freedom from slavery. In the mid-nineteenth century, prior to the Women’s movement, women could not vote, and they did not have the same opportunities for education or employment as men, to name a few inequalities.
They fought the man, the system and everything and then they formed the National Woman's Party in 1913 that fought for women’s rights during the suffrage movement. They were totally cool and stuff, They started the group as the "Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage" in 1913, but then they decided that the name didn't really fit their sound or image so they chaged it to the National Women's Party in 1917. After the 19th admendment that gave women the vote in 1920, they went after the passage of an equal rights amendment to the constitution. Congress was all like "yo, we cool mang, aight aight, you'll get cho amendment" BUT THEN PLOT TWIST; MOST OF THE STATES RATIFIED IT, BUT AT THE LAST MINUTE IN 1982, SOME JERK FACE NAMED PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY AND A COALITION OF CONSERVATIVES STOPPED THE BILL AND IT NEVER PASSED. SHAME ON YOU PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY, NONE FOR PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY.