Men And Women In The 1800's

How could men rely on women to do so much for them but they could not respect women? Women did not get the respect that they deserved. It was hard for women during the 1800s being that a lot of the major wars were taking place during this time. As men and women it specifically says in the bill of rights “that we are granted with many different freedoms” (First Ten Amendments) but to only get no respect in return. Men have no room to talk being that they get the respect they deserve while women get the side left overs and do not get recognized when they do the right thing. I am arguing against it because though out this whole semester in Triad C I have grown to be more of a feminist and I want to prove to you that women do not get the respect
Throughout history women have always been inferior to men. At the start of the “1800s, women were still looked upon primarily as the homemaker. But due to and along with the Second Great Awakening, women decided that they wanted to make changes of their own” (PBS). This started the evolution of women’s roles and women’s opportunities in the family, the workplace, and society. Women specifically have, “freedom of speech, to vote, of choice, of religion, from fear, from torture and from enslavement” (Bill of Rights). Yes, it is written where the Bill of Rights is speaking on men’s terms but it is really saying is that men and women are both equal there for it is referring to men. Though we are granted with these rights but we cannot fully use them to our own
Some of the main women rights advocates are Sarah Bagley, Elizabeth Stanton, Catherine Beecher, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Fuller and William Lloyd Garrison. Sarah Bagley was a woman that was known for her strike on how many hours men/women were working in the Mills and the way that women were getting treated for the hard work they would accomplish in the factory. Elizabeth Stanton was famous for her speech at the “Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 which outlined the ideals of equality and inalienable rights as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence” (Elizabeth Cady Stanton). Her leadership in the Seneca Falls Convention “reached out to other women and encouraged them to realize the kind of rights they were being rejected and called for them to stand up and fight for those very rights, thus creating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States” (Elizabeth Cady Stanton). Catherine Beecher was a “woman advocate for educational reform and the promotion of women as teachers” (Women’s Rights). While she did not necessarily push for a radical change in women’s roles in society, Beecher emphasized the importance that women had in society as educators and nurturers of the future generations. Susan B. Anthony joined