Women's Rights In The 1920s

From the year 1848 to the 1920s, women fought the belief that they were inferior to gain equal rights in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Before the twentieth century, women were not allowed to own property, vote or work most jobs , but the longer they fought for equality, women gain more rights and the beliefs of many people started to change. With the more rights women gained, they gained more power in society, government, and over themselves.

Before the start of America, American women were responsible for raising the family and running the household while the men were out working and making money for the family (Marisco 9-10). Before the 1830s, teaching, nursing, or clerical or domestic positions were careers meant for women. Women had

They expected the republican party to respond more favorably to giving women equal rights after their part in the war efforts of the home front but "to their dismay and disillusionment, the party leaders informed them that 'this is the negro's hour,'and that women must wait for their rights"(kraditor 3). With new inventions and advancing machines, changes were taking place that made the winnings of the women's movement possible. "women's clubs proliferated, women college graduates were almost becoming accepted as normal, women factory workers increased enormously in number and were beginning to organize, and middle-class women were finding that recent household inventions and changes in living patterns gave them more time for outside activities, while their training was making them dissatisfied with traditional middle-class women's activities"(Kraditor 5). The women's movement continued and women conducted many state campaigns, getting signatures for petitions, traveling, and speaking before voters and legislators (Kraditor 5)."More than half of the population and a growing segment of its workforce, women were ultimately responsible for improving their access to political power and jobs in the second half of the 20th