History of the Women's Movement for Suffrage and Women's Rights

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Prior to the famous movement for women's suffrage in the society, women had little or no say in the society. If they happen to be working, it was gruelling things like housework that would sometimes extend over the course of the whole day, or, later on during the famous industrialization era that took place, in various factories they get paid very little and work long hours. On the other hand women had the go ahead to vote but in only some states, it was practically a big joke to think of a woman as a politician in a state. Politics were very dominated by men, and also according to the strong feminists, that was a very big problem in and also of it. The very start of the gruelling battle for suffrage is largely attributed to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an abolitionist and also a feminist, who wrote the famous "Declaration of Sentiments" and read it at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848(Gordon142).The famous battle for women's rights in the society was by no means a small one. The great movement of women into the public had been gaining in large popularity since the mid-19th century (Gordon126). The Women demanded suffrage in 1848. On the other hand the delegates believed women to be citizens and not limited in any way to their roles as wives or mothers in the society.
Women entered into public life more and more in the years after the convention. In some parts this was also linked to the expansion of educational opportunities at the time. Women's colleges spread up all over the country, enrolling the young women, mainly the white middle-class women. By the year 1870 there were in total 11,000 female students at various institutions of higher education. Ages later, there was in total 40,000 a massive increase. Each and every single ...

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...s going to stop them, it was not with the single-minded fervour which the campaign vote had given them.
While suffrage did not produce the immediate results expected and hoped for, by its supporters nor did it on the other hand include minority women in the successes it did affect, but it did lay the groundwork for future young women to seek out a life full of independence and also public activity. Women then gradually came to realize the power of their citizenship and their rights to vote it’s always a process. The Law of the 1960s was another great stepping stone in the fight for America's great promise of equal rights for all. Women like Eleanor Roosevelt were awakened to a new stage of political consciousness by their right to vote. Suffrage greatly facilitated women’s efforts to lead public lives and to also inspire others who are following in their footsteps.

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