The History of Women's Suffrage

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The History of Women's Suffrage

This section on women's history will show the events that led to the suffrage movement and what the outcome was after the movement, plus how those events are involved in today's society. The women of the post suffrage era would not have the ability to the wide variety of professions were it not for their successes in the political arena for that time. In the early 1900’s when women were barred from most professions and limited in the amount of money they could earn, a group of suffragists led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton started to develop the women into an influential and powerful leaders of this country. The original women who started the suffrage movement had nothing to build on form former women groups. Therefore these women were the pioneers of the women's movement. The next era of women took the prior teaching of Anthony and Stanton and took it one step further with forming groups of women who not only talked about women's rights but also what they could do for country as well. They final step in the suffrage movement was the making of allies with powerful men who could help them take what they have learned from the earlier groups and combine that with the new concepts to form a powerful gender.

Because women were not yet influenced by any type of suffrage movement, in the eighteen twenties men were in control of all the United States. The home, workplace, and society were in power by men and for men. It was the menus belief at this time that women had no education therefore had no place in government or politics. They were thought to be possessions of their husbands, and must therefore go along with whatever they say. For years this is how men t...

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...hin women’s movements there still was never a conclusion and a truly fair treatment of women. To this day women have not been treated equals to men. This has been a constant battle for the past one hundred years and until the women are treated same as the men there will continue to be a problem between the two genders.

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