How Women's Roles have changed in society
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman” (Virginia Woolf). Women, as history knows it had been unrecognized by the society in which they dwell in for many years. They had no say in the affairs surrounding them and were subordinate to males. In a sense, they were “owned” by their fathers and husbands. As time passed and the country developed, women gradually gained rights otherwise not permitted to them before. But the battle to get this far was not easy. Women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony had to toil to and fight in what they believed in and in the end their effort did not go in vain. From the 1840s-1920s women fought for equality, from the 1930s- present women’s rights became reinforced, black women fought for equality, the pay gap between women and men became a point of attention and women in other countries rose to greatness.
The push for women’s rights in the United States from the 1840s to the 1920s was growing and becoming stronger. In 1848, the first women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY and there The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution was signed. It called for the equal treatment of men and women under the law (Women’s Rights Timeline). In attendance were prestigious women like Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1850, women in Oregon are granted the right to own land. This is a big move because women were not previously permitted to own land. If they were given land by their fathers, when they married it would become their husbands. Mary Edwards Walker in 1865 is granted the Congressional Medal of Honor for her role as a surgeon during the Civil War (Women’s History Timeline). The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association are created in 1869, both with the sole purpose of attaining women’s voting rights. They two organizations would later merge to form the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Seventy two years after the
The push for women’s rights in the United States from the 1840s to the 1920s was growing and becoming stronger. In 1848, the first women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY and there The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution was signed. It called for the equal treatment of men and women under the law (Women’s Rights Timeline). In attendance were prestigious women like Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1850, women in Oregon are granted the right to own land. This is a big move because women were not previously permitted to own land. If they were given land by their fathers, when they married it would become their husbands. Mary Edwards Walker in 1865 is granted the Congressional Medal of Honor for her role as a surgeon during the Civil War (Women’s History Timeline). The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association are created in 1869, both with the sole purpose of attaining women’s voting rights. They two organizations would later merge to form the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Seventy two years after the