Women's Rights In The 19th Century Essay

As Susan B. Anthony once said “No self-respecting woman should wish to work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.” Women have gone through a lot of rough times over the past 238 years in the United States. Over the years women were judged for working outside the home or wanting to go to college. Women in the 19th Century by Margaret Fuller it talks about the struggles women went through. Men thought of women as property not as people still do today. “Upon the creation of female schools, often called female seminaries and institutes, women finally had access to education.” Men weren’t the only ones that were smart enough to attend college most women were very smart. Women go to school to achieve what they want to become just like
They didn’t agree with the movement they had going on. “Since the beginning of the woman suffrage movement, men had been involved as active supporters. Some abolitionist men were supporters of women’s rights.” In the 1910, men became involved with the women’s suffrage but then by 1912 the National Men’s League had 20,000 members. Some men disagreed on this whole women’s right movement because they thought women should only be at home doing all the jobs there and taking care of the kids and animals, make sure the house was nice looking instead of looking ugly and unclean. Men thought they would lose their jobs if they had women working where they worked because they would be taking over their job then the men wouldn’t be able to support their families, the women would be supporting the families instead. “As to men's representing women fairly at present, while we hear from men who owe to their wives not only all that is comfortable or graceful, but all that is wise, in the arrangement of their lives, the frequent remark, “You cannot reason with a woman,”—when from those of delicacy, nobleness, and poetic culture, falls the contemptuous phrase “women and