Inequalities Of Women In The 19th Century

I have to let the readers know how I stumbled upon this topic to introduce where I get my ideas from. It all started in the archive located on the second floor of the library in a dark corner behind a clear glass doors at the Hunter College. I have been attending Hunter College for four years and never have I stumbled on such an amazing place full of live history. I say live history because all the documents and books that are held in the archive are all preserved originals, which fascinated me. Thinking how people who lived more than century ago wrote and read the same things I’m writing and reading about excited me to my very soul. Archive research though fascinating is not an easy task that can be done in within fifteen minutes like how researches are done these days using convenient technologies at hand.

Now in this precise year and day, you may view women as a strong and powerful person but was it always like that? In the 1920s, was the year women finally got the right to vote after all the campaigns made and reforms performed. In all some were still housewives while some felt the need to work in order to provide money for the family or themselves. Not all were married and had a husband to provide for them. Many obstacles had to be faced in order to be where we are today. Females faced inequality with men, but that did not stop them from accomplishing what they desired. Jobs and education in the 1920s were limited to women.

Many ancient laws and beliefs show that women from all around the world have always been considered inferior to men. However, as time went on, ideas of equality circulated around and women started to demand equality. Many women fought for equality and succeeded in bringing some rights. However, full equality for women has yet to be fulfilled. This issue is important because many women believe that the rights of a person should not be infringed no matter what their gender is, and by not giving them equality, their rights are being limited. During the periods 1840 to 1968, total equality for women did not become a reality due to inadequate political representation, economic discrepancy, and

Our book teaches us that the Miranda warnings are required when a suspect is under custodial interrogation. That is, the suspect is both in custody and under interrogation. I’ve chosen to discuss one case that highlights the Court’s position on Miranda during the custody phase; another case that focuses on the interrogation phase; and a third case that carves out an exception to Miranda.

In our current time much has changed from the past, men and women are “equal”, but realistically speaking there will always be certain standards set for women that will always differentiate from those set for men. The change in women’s role in the 19th century showed improvement because they began to speak up and refused to be silenced until their voices were heard. This made a deep oppression in the history and lives of women for years to come, but there will always be a standard set by men for women to overcome. The way women are seen today is very different than it was two hundred years ago when our only role was to be mothers, cooks, take care of the children, take care of the home and the husband, and we could not express what we had in mind. Basically this was the typical role of a woman, while men were seen as superior to women and therefore were taking all the decisions not only regarding to them, but also regarding to women and what they thought or wanted was not taken into account. Women were seen as passive and weak, and not as reliable to accomplish all that physically or mentally men could. While it is true that women have accomplished many things throughout the years and that we now own our lives to do with it whatever we want, whether it is be a mother, teacher, businesswoman, and models or have any other type of career we want. It is also true that women of color did not get as many rights and opportunities as white women and were still seen under the

At the end of the 18th century and during the 19th century, there were many changes to public ideology that affected the way that women perceived their roles in society. Prior to these changes, women had adopted the beliefs of separate “spheres” separating work into public life and their duties as mothers at home1. Women stayed at home to take care of the children and provide a warm, welcoming home for their husbands to take refuge from public life. Women became aware of their lack of legal and political power after the American Revolutionary War ended as they were denied the right to the same freedoms that granted the right to vote to the white, property-owning male population2. Despite granting women more liberty to run businesses, farms,

The 19th century in the American West encompassed a time of expansionist ideals, both in territories and public conceptions. Various factions that had hereto been silenced experienced heightened opportunities in this venture out west. Notably, among these groups that gained freedoms were women, specifically those of the Caucasian ethnicity. As pioneers moved west, the idea of women’s domesticity begun to diminish by virtue of laxed social regulations coupled with the substitution of the brick and mortar home with the covered wagon. This withdrawal from the stringent systems enforced by the patriarchy of the day would allow the women’s development both within and without the spheres previously barred from their reach.

Throughout the twentieth century the status of women has been on a slow, but steady upward slope. The women of this time worked extremely hard to earn the rights and status we hold today. The improvements in the status of women were subtle in the beginning. In time though, it became well known the overall status of women and how they once were viewed was to be changed for the better in the eyes of society. The change in women’s status included but was not limited to: improvement in their every day work atmosphere, voting rights were given, and the ability to be noticed for their hard work was achieved. Solely the women themselves did not achieve the noticeable improvement in the status of women; the federal government played a large role in the improvement as well. The federal governments involvement included but was not limited to: maximum laws

Women began standing up for themselves using literature in the nineteenth century. The time periods of the feminism booms were called waves. There are three waves of feminism starting from the nineteenth century to now. They all occurred in the United Kingdom, Britain, France, and the United States. These waves lead to women getting closer to being treated equal to men.

Women are still fighting for gender equality till this day but have you ever just stopped and wondered just really how much they have accomplished in the past century? During the early 1900s women were considered to be the weaker sex and had far fewer rights when compared to men (Eichler, Margrit). Also socially there was no respect for women from men as they were portrayed as a mere tool to help men do their job. In a workplace environment, they are also not treated equally (History of Protection for Equal Pay). Women did not choose to be women, it’s impossible to choose what gender one is born in so why do we still till this day discriminate against it?

The biggest issue that still continues on affecting people today is poverty. In the 19th century, women faced poverty tremendously since they had less say in society because they were disadvantaged. Even though Jane Eyre was not poor, she was treated like so since the way her aunt Reed treated her was the same way she treated ther servants. As time passed, Jane became a governess and fell in love with Rochester. The women whom Rochester associated with were from the upper class and delusioned to marry a rich man so that they could support them.

The uniform worn by a police officer often psychologically embodies each individual’s stereotypes about the officer’s authority, status, and motivations. In this formal paper I will be exploring the cause of negative perceptions that Canadian minorities have on police uniforms.

In the 1770 care shifted from being done in home by family and neighbors, to women coming out of the home and onto the battlefront to care for wounded men. These women were usually the wives, daughters, and mothers of the men fighting, because without them at home to provide for them the women could not sustain their families. Since these women followed the soldier’s camps through the war they started being incorporated into the care of the wounded men, because the military felt that women would show more compassion to the soldiers than other men would. In 1751 America’s first hospital opened in Philadelphia, but most people did not view hospitals as safe, and preferred to be cared for at home still as they ailed, because at home they

Helen Keller once said, “I fall, I stand still… I trudge on. I gain a little… I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory." Keller’s ideas embody the change that occurs in women’s roles in American literature. The first writings of 16th century America contained little reference to women at all. In the early 19th century, women play somewhat larger roles but remain only in supporting roles until later in the century when a shift takes place and women now hold leading roles as the heroines of stories. Not only does the character’s role change, but also beginning in the 1800s, a continual shift occurs in the portrayal of women. Initially, women were portrayed as members of society who served as the man’s wife and remained silent influences to a man’s judgment. Eventually, this portrayal progressed to women of thought who desire to rebel from social norms. As women authors began writing about the suffrage they set internal fires in women that would cause an uproar and craving for change.

In the mid to late nineteenth century, America was full of potential. Settlers were cultivating the west, blacks that were once captive were no longer enslaved, and a woman’s role in society was undergoing a transformation. The reality of this all was, blacks were not considered equal status with whites, American Indians were being pushed out west and women were still considered second-class citizens.