Women's Rights In The 20th Century

Women in the mid-1800s had nearly any rights they could not vote or hold office. If women were to get married their husband got all of the property he owned all her wages if she worked the husband could hit his wife long as it did not injure her. Women held many rallies and other events to try and get equal right. The Women's Rights Movement allowed women a chance to go to college and other schooling opportunities. Finally women got the same jobs as men they got paid the same they owned all of their property and wages.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This sentence from the Deceleration of Independence is one of the most well known of American documents. However, consequently we have all become comfortably numb to this statement and don’t take into consideration the struggles, fights, and deaths from our history that made this statement true. Due to the unceasing fight of men and women of three different groups, America was altered for the better. The late 1800 to early 1900 was an essential time for three key groups women, African Americans, and Indians to fight for their constitutional rights.

Why did women not get the same respect men did? We worked just as hard as they did maybe more.and still put forth more work to even be considered or even thought of rights

A Doll House gives us a true insight into the roles for men and women during the late 1800’s. This is why the play has been said to be able to take place in any and all suburbs. At this point in history, the roles of gender were mainly consistent across the world. Men vs. women in economics, social status, gender rights, marriage and divorce, and occupation can best describe this.

During the 1800s, it was a difficult time for women to live their life as they wanted. While, men and women are treated equal in today’s society, this was not the case in previous centuries. Women couldn’t serve or obtain the same rights that men had. These women had no rights to obtain a decent job, get educated nor vote like men did. Women were denied in having the same access that men were capable of.

When America was first formed the founding fathers wrote that all men were created equal, which seems fair except for that the definition of man used was not humans in the general since, but instead only the male population. Yet, throughout history women have fought for their rights. One could argue that the 1970s were the most revolutionary times for women’s rights in the United States, however it was truly the 1920s that were the most revolutionary for women's rights.     The 1920s were an important part of the revolution of women's rights. The women's right movement started to get publicity surrounding their cause in the 1920s which is necessary for any change to occur as power is in numbers.

The U.S industry, as well as the government expanded during wartime needs. Women made all of this possible (Partners in Winning the War). Women were needed to fill in the traditional male jobs during the war. These jobs provided unprecedented opportunities for women to move into occupations, previously thought of as exclusively for men. However, with these new opportunities, American women began to change the stereotypes of gender roles. They took over the majority of factory and office jobs, previously occupied by men. Five million women entered the workplace during 1940-1945, the gap in the labor force created by departing soldiers. It is seen that a huge percentage of American women have begun to take over these positions, slowly changing the industrial world in the United States (Khan Academy).

Have you ever thought of how we women got our freedom where we don’t have to be so dependent of the males in their life? We all have heard about the role of women in the 1800s. Have you thought or heard of the details of it? Have you ever thought of how the role of women in the 1800s made the women feel by the way they were being treated? According to Susan M. Cruea, due to their emotional and physical frailty, a true woman needed to be protected by a male family member (3).

In the late nineteenth century, women were beginning to take a stand for their equal rights in society. The term “new woman” was used to describe these women, openly proclaiming their independence from men. It was a woman’s way to threaten the conventional ideas of society, and to bring about their own changes (Buzwell). Following their well-known suffrage movement, women claimed their freedom sexually, physically, and in the workplace. For many years’ prior, women were expected to be the typical housewife, watching over the house, cooking, and cleaning. They were property of their husbands. During their equal rights revolution, women pursued careers like doctors or lawyers and fulfilling their sexual desires for purposes other than bearing children. As today’s society may never know the struggles and misfortunes during the Victorian era, Dracula leaves a time capsule behind to elaborate on the realities during such a prominent generation (Podonsky). Considering this given criteria, a new woman comes in a variety of forms; some women represent a stronger sexual desire while others demonstrate character traits on equality in work and education. In the case of Dracula, the two main female characters take two different forms; one blatantly sexual and one chaste (Humphrey). Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula portrays the ideas of a “new woman” in a modern society, utilizing Mina’s and Lucy’s characters to display opposite characteristics of the feminist movement which draw attention to

During the 1920s, women gained a lot more power than ever before. The Nineteenth Amendment was enacted and it gave all women the right to vote. Many of the women during this era known as the “Roaring Twenties” became flappers. These women typically had short hair, wore semi-short skirts, wore excessive amounts of makeup, drank, smoked and partied quite often with the boys of the era, known as sheiks. There were many other laws enacted during the 1920s, such as the Sheppard-Towner Act and the Equal Rights Amendment, but none of the acts passed seemed to help women in the workforce. A limitation that they faced was that although they did the same job as the men, they still were paid lower wages than the men.

In terms of having rights in the 20th century, women were very limited. They were mostly considered as housekeepers, mothers, spouses, and could not be equal to men. The main goal of this segment is to illustrate women Abolitionism. After many researches into their background, women in the early 1900 where useless in the society and to gain their equality, they went into a serious battlefield which caused a civil right movement just to meet their goals.

In her report, Veronica Loveday writes about Women’s Rights Movement, during World War two, and many restrictions women faced. Women’s rights movement in the U.S. begun in the 1960s as a reaction to the decades of unfair social and civil inequities faced by women. Over the next thirty years, feminists campaigned for equality, such as equal pay, equal work , and abortion rights. Women finally gained the right to vote with the passage of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 1920.

It would be a huge understatement to say that many things have changed when it comes to women's rights, positions, and roles in our society today since the 19th century. Actually, very few similarities remain. Certain family values, such as specific aspects of domesticity and performance of family duties are amongst the only similarities still present.

Women’s rights have evolved over time; beginning with being homemakers and evolving to obtaining professions, acquiring an education, and gaining the right to vote. The movement that created all these revolutionary changes was called the feminist movement. The feminist movement occurred in the twentieth century. Many people are not aware of the purpose of the feminist movement. The movement was political and social and it sought to set up equality for women. Women’s groups in the United States worked together to win women’s suffrage and later to create and support the Equal Rights Amendment. The economic boom between 1917 and the early 1960s brought many American women into the workplace. As women began to join

The Women's Rights Movement was a significant crusade for women that began in the late nineteenth century and flourished throughout Europe and the United States for the rest of the twentieth century. Advocates for women's rights initiated this movement as they yearned for equality and equal participation and representation in society. Throughout all of history, the jobs of women ranged from housewives to factory workers, yet oppression by society, particularly men, accompanied them in their everyday lives. Not until the end of the nineteenth century did women begin to voice their frustrations about the inequalities among men and women, and these new proclamations would be the basis for a society with opportunities starting to open for