Women's Rights Movement: 19th And Early Twentieth Century
Exam 3 – Women’s Rights Movement Beginning in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women’s rights movement and their rejection of traditional gender roles have been a controversy all over the world. Many females have battled to regain their stigma of what is appropriate and what is not. There have and always will be many individuals whom believe that women should have no rights at all. While there are also others whom suppose that women should have the world owed to them for the many ways of abuse and derogatory comments. Throughout generation of generation there have many different forms of feminism. The topic we will be discussing today is that of the nineteenth and twentieth century. In these centuries, women were not given
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In 1848, “the first formal meeting organized toward addressing gender inequality was the Women’s Right Convention in Seneca Falls.” (Sailus) At Seneca Falls, over three hundred men and women met over the span of three days. They discussed the current state of women according to the U.S. law and strategies. They used these resources and information to mobilize women across the country and create serious change. There the attendees drafted the “… Declaration of Sentiments, [this] document … laid out the injustices of the current role of women in society, including their own property, their subjugation to men, and their lack of political access, among others.” …show more content…
The suffrage movement “was clearly dominated by educated, white women, it became a mass movement in the 1910s when its goals were increasingly shared by working-class and African American women who had their own political agendas…” (Evans) After the vote was won in 1920, “the organized Woman’s Rights Movement continued on in several directions… while many others [whom participated] looked no further, … [others] understood that the quest for women’s rights would be an ongoing struggle that was only advanced, not satisfied by the vote.” (Eisenburg, Ruthsdotter) Following the victory in 1919 when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association dismantled their organization and reformed as a League of Women Voters. They created this organization so that the women would take their vote seriously and use it wisely since this was the first time they were allowed to do such a
In 1848, “the first formal meeting organized toward addressing gender inequality was the Women’s Right Convention in Seneca Falls.” (Sailus) At Seneca Falls, over three hundred men and women met over the span of three days. They discussed the current state of women according to the U.S. law and strategies. They used these resources and information to mobilize women across the country and create serious change. There the attendees drafted the “… Declaration of Sentiments, [this] document … laid out the injustices of the current role of women in society, including their own property, their subjugation to men, and their lack of political access, among others.” …show more content…
The suffrage movement “was clearly dominated by educated, white women, it became a mass movement in the 1910s when its goals were increasingly shared by working-class and African American women who had their own political agendas…” (Evans) After the vote was won in 1920, “the organized Woman’s Rights Movement continued on in several directions… while many others [whom participated] looked no further, … [others] understood that the quest for women’s rights would be an ongoing struggle that was only advanced, not satisfied by the vote.” (Eisenburg, Ruthsdotter) Following the victory in 1919 when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association dismantled their organization and reformed as a League of Women Voters. They created this organization so that the women would take their vote seriously and use it wisely since this was the first time they were allowed to do such a