Women's Rights In The 1800s

Americans take everything for granted nowadays. Citizenship in America is a privilege, yet Americans have a sense of entitlement. Wealth and life had a different meaning 100 years ago than it does now. Times have changed over the course of time but some may argue women still have less rights. Women's rights and privilege was unjust and women then were treated poorly. We can see these differences and similarities in things like military, work force, home life, suffrage, and civil rights. Women in the 1900’s seeked to be seen as wives and mothers. Women were not career driven in these times. One thing women then and women today share in common is their need for independence. At the start of the twentieth-century women were expected to marry and
Women of equal low social class to men were more equal than any other class. Mostly because they shared one thing in common, they were poor. In fact the higher you were on the social class the less rights you had, but the higher social classes had a lower mortality rate.
Women were not allowed to vote in the early twentieth-century. Women found this unjust do to African-American man being able to vote after the fifteenth amendment ratified on February 3, 1870. The amendment states “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Nearly forty years later this amendment gave women the leverage they needed to gain women’s rights to suffrage. Women had political knowledge from raising children, especially that were male. The male children were the ones growing up to be legislators, voters, and doctors of America. Women improved their social status by the ideology of “republican motherhood”. Women being the primary source the inventors were marketing things like washing machine’s and cookware gave women the upper hand for they were important to the sales
On a televised discussion in 1962 president Kennedy stated "We want to be sure that women are used as effectively as they can to provide a better life for our people, in addition to meeting their primary responsibility, which is in the home." This speech sent out a lot of mixed signals. It was basically telling woman to go explore, to flourish and live life; but to put their husband first as their primary responsibility. A report in 1963 showed women made 59 cents for every dollar that a man earned. Women were also not hired for important job roles. It wasn’t until the National Organization of Women was founded that women were not getting discriminated in the workplace. This didn’t change the fact that they did not get paid equally to men. To this day woman still get paid 80% of what men are paid. Even though the pay gap has narrowed since the 1960’s at the rate it has been going, women will not get paid equally to men until 2059. It’s reported women earn 7% less than men after taking time off from their jobs for having a baby. Statistics show men see an increase in pay during this time. Employers are basically staying women will get paid less because they bear children and pregnancy can sometimes be unpredictable. This is unjust and should not be something that will take another thirty