Women's Rights In The 1800s And Early 1900
For many many years women and men equality have been a problem. Only because women do not get the same respect or qualities as men normally do. This has been happening for years and years overdue. For a long time women could not vote only men.In the 1800’s and early 1900’s women were mainly nurses or stay at home moms.Generally women just stayed home cooked,cleaned and cared for children while the husband worked.This was called being a housewife, this was popular during the early 1900’s. As a women if you wanted to be a lawyer or be in the army or any other profession men only thought they could do, you would have to work 12 times harder than men do. Women always wondered why do we have to work harder than men to do? Nobody knows an exact
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The protest with the women's suffrage first began in the 1800’s. Elizabeth cady and Lucretia Mott organized the women’s rights convention in New York,a lot of women attend this but also men ,former slave and activist frederick douglass. This meeting confirmed that all women agreed they should get the same opportunities as men to be successful in life.Susan B anthony was also a big factor in the women's suffrage protest. It took a lot for women to get there right to vote but they made sure it was going to happen. Now women have the 19th amendment for them to vote. That just took one problem off the list for …show more content…
Men got paid more than a women did even if they had the same job title or assignment. But in 1963 the equal women's pay act was enabled and passed. If a woman is paid less than a man doing the same job it was called sex discrimination,which is illegal.Although this act was passed so long ago women are still being underpaid in the 2000’s. In 2015 women only earned 83 percent of what men earned. Ages 25 to 34 are the only age group to where they get paid 90 percent of what men get although, it isn't equal it is an increase then the other age groups of women. In order for a woman to receive the same amount of salary , as a man a women would have to work 44 days additional days more.Generally a women should be getting the same amount of pay no matter what especially since the equal pay act of 1963 and now it's illegal, but people do it
The protest with the women's suffrage first began in the 1800’s. Elizabeth cady and Lucretia Mott organized the women’s rights convention in New York,a lot of women attend this but also men ,former slave and activist frederick douglass. This meeting confirmed that all women agreed they should get the same opportunities as men to be successful in life.Susan B anthony was also a big factor in the women's suffrage protest. It took a lot for women to get there right to vote but they made sure it was going to happen. Now women have the 19th amendment for them to vote. That just took one problem off the list for …show more content…
Men got paid more than a women did even if they had the same job title or assignment. But in 1963 the equal women's pay act was enabled and passed. If a woman is paid less than a man doing the same job it was called sex discrimination,which is illegal.Although this act was passed so long ago women are still being underpaid in the 2000’s. In 2015 women only earned 83 percent of what men earned. Ages 25 to 34 are the only age group to where they get paid 90 percent of what men get although, it isn't equal it is an increase then the other age groups of women. In order for a woman to receive the same amount of salary , as a man a women would have to work 44 days additional days more.Generally a women should be getting the same amount of pay no matter what especially since the equal pay act of 1963 and now it's illegal, but people do it