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 women campaigned for full female equality. A few examples of these rights were the right to vote, own property, attend college, and enter a higher standard of the work world. This convention led to the writing of the “Declaration of Sentiments”, which mimicked the “Declaration of Independence”, but states that
Women were able, furthermore, to stand as candidates in local elections by 1888, enabling women to challenge opposition views that had always denied them their rights, and the increasing roles of women in society indicated greater social acceptance. However, limitations persisted in that these responsibilities were seen as ‘domestic’ and women were still openly denied the parliamentary franchise. In addition, these crucial changes remained restricted to only middle class women, thus losing crucial support from working class women who had already established highly developed unions. Hence, the Radical Suffragist Party focused on working class women thus ‘radical’ for these views. These contributed to social reform through peaceful means and set up successful women’s trade unions which created equal rights for women in payment and working hours.
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.
Changes in the role of women A large majority of women in the 50’s and 60’s were expected to be a house wife: to cook; to clean; to look after the house and children. However, during the 60’s and 70’s more technology was being purchased and as a result of this was making the work of women a lot easier. For example, the washing machine became very popular and women saw that they were having less work to do, as a result of this more women wanted to develop their own interests. One woman said; “I was always trying to think of short cuts to housework, to get out and stimulate my own interest and that’s where the washing machine came into its own!” This led to more women looking for work outside of the house, which to some men seemed like an “unsettling and deplorable” idea (according to Dominic Sandbrook). Another way the role of women changed during 1955 and 1975 was that they were becoming much more confident this is shown by Dominic Sandbrook: “the results was that the conventional, patronising view of women, which presented them as weak, unreliable and oversensitive, was no longer sustainable.” This shows that women (with some help from the new technology) were becoming stronger and more independent.
Women as leaders: An emergence to be recognized Abstract: In a constantly growing society, the issue of leadership opportunities is a hard one to tackle. These days, many women have trouble feeling equality in the career and leadership world. Are the barriers women feel against them due to society’s views? In this paper I will define the problem of women’s leadership barriers, discuss the argument for and against the idea that society has caused this, and present a conclusion on the issue. Intro: Women leadership.
Their ideologies of social reform were more conservative and traditional in nature. They felt that because women had different needs, the law must be made to recognize these differences because they are significant and relevant to women’s lives and their futures. They fought for women’s suffrage not because they believed it was their “right” as women to vote, but more on the pretense that it was their “duty”. They believed that by having the vote, women would have more political power to improve life for themselves and their children. Their emphasis was on women’s responsibilities as mothers, “Maternalism”, Public Housekeeping, and women’s biological difference from men.
More women were receiving educations and began to get involved in community and national organizations which brought these women together to fight for their beliefs on human reform. Women were notoriously known in the major part they played in the Temperance Movement which later resulted in the passage of the Prohibition Amendment. Despite the failure of Prohibition, the outlawing of alcohol was important to these women because some people thought alcohol undermined values and morals. These women
However, people with bigger brains are proven to not generally be smarter. (Gray) After the women’s movement in America, women’s fighting for equality has mostly dissolved. The Constitution is one of the things that has helped women become more independent and able to do more in society. So, does the Constitution still need