Oppression Of Women From 1848-1920's

Working Toward Change The 72-year-old fight made by women lasting from 1848-1920 would over time result in the establishment of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution declaring women’s suffrage and subconsciously empowered women that additional doors of opportunity would then too be opened. However prior to reaching the “golden” destination, women had a grueling journey filled with bountiful obstacles (such as laws, expectations, and stereotypes) that had to be overcome to reach their ultimate destination. Peasants, women, and children (regardless of class) were not considered to be citizens, but rather placed into categories and referred to as property or subjects of men, husbands, and fathers. With a few exceptions, majority
Additionally, men were taught to aspire, be anything they could imagine while on the other hand, women were limited and restricted from the same exact things that men had the opportunity to grasp and utilize. Moreover, true womanhood has a certain stigma marked by definite characteristics that should be displayed by women as deemed appropriate by their sexuality. Domesticity, piety, purity, and submissiveness were amongst those requirements. Ladies were presumed to be domestic, work and clean around the house, and raise the children. Young girls would be raised to takeover the jobs of their mothers, while young boys should be taught to aspire and become actively involved with government and politics. Ladies were also deemed to have piety or religious and right characteristics. Purity was another stereotype of ladies; they were sexually pure, never thought nor cared about sex. Lastly, in order to be accepted into womanhood, one had to be submissive, ridding herself from citizenship and allowing herself to become a subject to
In the primary source document “Women’s Rights Movement” (91), the women at the Worcester convention identifies several important topics that women strive to obtain regarding their fight for women’s suffrage. Women rights advocates publicize their efforts to one another. First, women demand they should have the right to vote and become politically active despite gender, color, or race. By doing so, women insinuate none of the aforementioned were created less and implied the term “male” should be omitted from the current legal state document rather than being a requirement to be qualified to serve (91). The primary source explains women acknowledged they were more than housewives and capable of learning. Because education was vital to learning, the proposal of equal education for men and women to pursue any ambitions came to be. Also, women strongly protested against the feme covert law. Women desired to have their own property, protect her own children, and stand as her own self, an individual, a citizen who claims life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (91). Moreover by allowing a woman to stand as a citizen, it would aide in the protection of women from their intoxicated husband who could drunkenly stumble home and beat his wife who is essentially deemed property under the feme covert