Turning Points In The Progressive Era

The turning point in the Progressive Era I found to be important was the Women’s right movement. Women were citizens of the US, but were denied their right to vote. During this movement women tried to assert themselves as equal to men. Women wanted to have the same value in society that a man would receive. They were mainly rejected because of the typical gender roles where women are said to belong in a home. A woman’s position was to take care of children and be a good wife, but women wanted more. The leader of the women’s right movement Frances Willard stated, “A wider freedom is coming to the women of America[1].”
A women deserve the right to be apart of the working world and to be taken seriously just like a man. The wanted to step up an