For example, middle-class clubwomen and settlement workers addressed issues such as education and healthcare. Working women pushed to raise wages, as well as to improve harsh working conditions. While African American women worked to fight against racism. The status of woman began to change expoditiously in the Progressive Era. However, women workers were primarily young and single, or widows, divorcees, poor married woman, or colored women.
J.S. Mill was strongly with women’s campaign and he also wrote a book called ‘The Subjection of Women’ in 1869. J.S. Mill talked about how women require suffrage as men’s vote also affects them and why they deserve to be able to vote. These were a couple of reasons why women
Ultimately the BPW provided women with the opportunity to “assume a public life without too deeply challenging traditional gender roles”(85). In these public groups women could speak freely in their own private space without being scrutinized by males. Although many women chose to be involved in these professional groups, there had been controversies surrounding self employed women and how they felt about the BPW not representing the experiences they had. Buddle went on to argue that the experiences and activities of the BPW club members did not represent the experiences of most self employed women in the province, however their actions and their interests reflect the concerns of working women and, in some cases, the specific concerns of self
Marriage, Social Conventions, The Bible, and the Oppression of Women Marital status helped define the social role and legal rights of women. These social roles created an oppression of women that had unseen repercussions. Some liberated women of the antebellum period were beginning to define themselves as intellectual and political creatures outside of their domestic roles. But, these women were few. They were not large enough in number to make any severe impact on the antebellum period.
Marriage started to be viewed as a union of two equal people seeking love, happiness and stability in the 19th century. The women's rights movements of the 19th century were responsible for changing society's attitudes towards women. The change in the role of women in the society came from an acknowledgment of the voice about the condition of women in the society (Helgren & Collen, 2010). The social and political movements in the French and the American Revolution also made women realize how a change from collective points of view could result in radical changes. Women's roles began changing drastically after a greater emphasis was made to change the traditional bound functions of women.
How extensively did the political status of women change during the period 1868-1997? By defining ‘political status’ as women’s involvement in pressure groups, their Parliamentary representation and their ability to directly involve themselves with politics, it is evident that women have made substantial headway. From as early as 1870, women gained some voting power, until complete enfranchisement in 1928; from the conspicuous absence of women within Parliament to Thatcher’s premiership, women have, legally at least, gained a degree of gender equality. However, the political status of women had plateaued by the end of the period, ergo the change in women’s political status has been quite limited. In regards to the franchise, women’s political status has changed the most - women have been granted the vote on an equal footing with men, making this the most extensive and indisputable change.
Secondly, there will be an empowerment of women. With more women working, they will be increasingly financially independent and do not need to depend on their husbands for a living. This will in turn increase their self worth. Also, women’s opinions would be more respected than before and have a louder voice in society. They are able to advocate and promote women rights, or even speak up for women who were abused and put a stop to it.
During early times, women could not carry out suffrage due to a law that only allowed males to vote. During the Civil War, a petition issued by the newly formed National Woman's Rights Committee championed for the amendment of the constitution that discriminated voters with respect to their gender. The advocates for suffrage supported this movement because all this aimed at winning the rights for women to get the opportunity to vote in both local and state levels. Progressive politics of neighboring countries, which included the rights of women to vote, provided a background and motivation in their bid of searching for women suffrage (Brinkley 221). The Fifteenth Amendment came into action to allow black African-American males to vote stating that the blacks needed it more than the entire women population.
Women started that movement because they wanted to fight for their rights. They were intimidated, put down, and did not get much help from the people, but they still stood tall and did not give up to get their rights. Even though women are discriminated by men, they become an allied victory during Wolrd War 1. A big amount of women are being oppressed and are considered failures just because they are women. People that did not want women
Let Women Vote by Marlene Targ Brill This book is young adult literature is written down to the readers so the understanding of civil right can be more clearly, the book tell some stories of how the women right had been an impact in America society better said the fight for the nineteen amendment. The main focus of this book is to understand the story in how society discriminate women during several eras. The narrator explain the time frame in a different matter, he begin with the story of Carrie Chapman in what she did to fight for the women rights and what she saw, followed the chapters with more important personalities involved in this suffrage. Each chapter covers a different period, but they all share the same organization of describing the social, cultural, political, philosophical and scholarly aspects of the period in respective subsections. This made it easier to later refer to previous chapters and compare different periods in order to learn the comprehensive history of Woman suffrage Amendment into the United States Constitution.