Women's Rights In The 1920s

“It is the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a conviction, things begin to happen.” From 1848 to 1920, the women in America decided it was about time for a change. Did you know that the legislature of Tennessee changed his vote in the nineteenth amendment to a ‘yes’? Do you know why? Women’s rights were an important part of our history;discover why here.

Elizabeth Cady Staton wrote speeches for the women’s rights movement. According to the National Organization for Women: The suffrage Movement and its Leaders, after the speeches were written, Susan B. Anthony presented them to the crowds. Together, they wrote the first draft of the nineteenth amendment. Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, and Carrie Chapman led the National Woman's Party (NWP) and the National American women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in their massive demonstrations. The women held marches and meetings all over the country, in a wide variety of states. Washington was the fifth state to ratify the nineteenth amendment. The
World War One opened many jobs that needed to be done. At the time, men were at war so they couldn't do all their regular jobs. So women stepped up to the plate. They worked in factories making guns, became auto mechanics, printers, farmers, and even worked in lumber camps. More than two million women started working, setting an instant record on the amount of working women. But as you know, wars don’t go on forever, and the men started coming home. Business dropped like a rock. America no longer needed guns, or biplanes, or as much food. Previously working women were booted out of their jobs to make room for the incoming men. According to The Washington Journey, chapter six, page 150, men said that “women should stay home and give the jobs to the men.” Men decided women should just stay home, doing all the chores and making food, instead of having an actual