Equality In The 1800's

Equality is an important issue today all across the world. Without women's suffragists who fought for gender equality in the 1800's, when women weren't even allowed to vote, the world would be even farther behind. The passing of the nineteenth amendment has positively benefited modern society by granting women their right to influence the government and enforcing the idea that men and women of all kinds are equal.

The nineteenth amendment to the constitution has positively benefited modern society by giving women their right to influence the government. When the constitution was written, it was collectively decided that women would not be allowed to vote, so that they would be spared form the "evils of politics" ("Nineteenth Amendment").
The women's suffrage movement was created by women who were supporting abolition when they realized that women were oppressed just like the African Americans they were fighting for ("Nineteenth Amendment"). Accordingly, women were usually involved in both movements: abolition and women's suffrage. The common goals of equality helped unite people of different genders and races, though it would not stay that way. In the mid 1800's black and white women's suffragists were pitted against each other by the passing of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, which gave voting and citizen rights to African American men (Nash59). Some women's suffrage associations supported the amendments and some did not, but in the end everyone came together ("Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote"). The nineteenth amendment gave voting rights to all women, white and black, thus uniting people once again. It is said that, "If the movements first philosopher, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were still alive today, she would undoubtedly be impatient with the progress just as she was in her lifetime" (Nash114). Despite how far society has come since the passing of the amendment in 1920, people are still not considered equal by everyone. Individuals are still discriminated against for their religion, race, and sex. Without the nineteenth amendment and the women who fought for it, society would be even farther behind. Hence, the acceptance of this amendment helped ignite the idea that people of all races and sexes are equal in all