Empowerment Of Women In The 1920's
Women no longer stand the same way they used too. Women used to stand under the working man, the disabled man, even under the enslaved man. Time has flourished and evolved the women figure. Many females’ show their empowerment through work, education, politics, movements, and in the home. Sometimes women’s stories get distorted throughout history. Many people consider females to have had a success story right away. The impact of women on earth has been tremendous and empowering. Women are the creators of human life. They have brought presidents, enlightenment thinkers, scientists, teachers, doctors, astronauts, engineers, and the list continues into an infinite number of people they have brought into this world. Their numbers have increased
…show more content…
But when the major changes started to occur for the women in the United States, was by the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Women’s power and was changing the world. “Women led the movement for Prohibition and the temperance movement and played prominent roles in founding settlement houses, in social work, in immigrant aid societies, and in other movements for social reform. Although women did not win the right to vote until 1920, the movement for women's suffrage began before the Civil War in the 1840s. By the 1920s, women's lives had undergone many changes and the rise of the "new woman" was in full effect” (New Women p. 2). The first women’s movement caused a stir in the world. Women having the right to vote was a foreign concept even unfathomable. Women had no political, social, or a working voice. Women will unite together as one force to attain the power to vote, go to school, the ability to go to school. With their success rate increasing. The power of women shines to show greatness. That women don’t have to fit the stereotypical stay at home mom. Women have shown through these events that they have much to offer to the world.
Even though women have caused change through their hard work, there is much more that must be done. Women continue to be oppressed by males whom feel superior to women. Men who have not changed their archaic views of women continue to suppress the rights of women. Women will continue to hold more power for progression of time has shown that it is inevitable. The change that women have done is immense. Not only did they single handedly change the social norms of society they molded the path for future generations of women. To have a voice in their mother country to be treated as human beings with dignity and
But when the major changes started to occur for the women in the United States, was by the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Women’s power and was changing the world. “Women led the movement for Prohibition and the temperance movement and played prominent roles in founding settlement houses, in social work, in immigrant aid societies, and in other movements for social reform. Although women did not win the right to vote until 1920, the movement for women's suffrage began before the Civil War in the 1840s. By the 1920s, women's lives had undergone many changes and the rise of the "new woman" was in full effect” (New Women p. 2). The first women’s movement caused a stir in the world. Women having the right to vote was a foreign concept even unfathomable. Women had no political, social, or a working voice. Women will unite together as one force to attain the power to vote, go to school, the ability to go to school. With their success rate increasing. The power of women shines to show greatness. That women don’t have to fit the stereotypical stay at home mom. Women have shown through these events that they have much to offer to the world.
Even though women have caused change through their hard work, there is much more that must be done. Women continue to be oppressed by males whom feel superior to women. Men who have not changed their archaic views of women continue to suppress the rights of women. Women will continue to hold more power for progression of time has shown that it is inevitable. The change that women have done is immense. Not only did they single handedly change the social norms of society they molded the path for future generations of women. To have a voice in their mother country to be treated as human beings with dignity and