Annotated Bibliography: The Advocacy And Work Of Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt's advocacy and work for women's rights bridged the gap for women in a variety of disciplines such as politics and employment and spread her ideas about women and equality on a large scale. Eleanor’s advocacy spanned all sorts of different topics, but her most prominent had to be in women's rights. In the years 1924 through 1934, women’s impact in the democratic party expanded greatly in terms of party organization, voter mobilization, and the inclusion of reform issues. This was all of achievable because of a certain woman from New York. Eleanor was one of the first to start the long battle for women’s rights before anyone. Specifically, ER paved the way for women in politics. First off, she joined the

Though all of this, Eleanor’s greatest achievement in Women’s rights had to be her successful attempt to pass the 48-hour bill. This bill proposes that women have the ability to work up to 48 hours per week. If passed, it would solidify women's employment, which was a huge deal. Through this bill, she was able to “rehabilitate the New York State Democratic Party’s reputation” and tightly strengthen the bond between social justice feminism and the democratic party (5). ER always challenged people whose ideas she thought were unjust no matter who the person was. For example, her husband, president Roosevelt refused to have female journalists during white house press conferences. Eleanor requested that her husband allow some female reporters in but he again refused. Eleanor went against his wishes and held the very first only female press conference in history (1). ER was extremely vocal about her opinions and ideas which reflected in her writing. ER wrote a monthly journal called “Women’s Democratic News(5)” as well as her famous newspaper column, “My Day (4).” She wrote 6 days per week in which she spoke out about different issues especially women's rights. She commented on women’s role in the workplace, politics,

Eleanor Roosevelt's role in the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights allowed an international body to recognize man's inalienable rights which had never been done before. The UDHR is a culmination of everything that ER stood for in writing. A perfect way to describe the UDHR is “to this day as the most widely recognized statement of the rights to which every person on our planet is entitled (6).” This document, though, was not just magically agreed upon by all of these different countries, it was a massive undertaking. President Truman was a huge advocate for human rights and the UDHR. He smartly appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as the chairman of the UDHR. ER has also represented the United States in partaking in the drafting committee of which she was the only women (6). Eleanor was chosen based on her work ethic and merit which was proven an uncountable amount of times in the past. When actually looking at the document and its articles it's clear that ER played a crucial part in drafting it. For example, the very first article saysm “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” This article is a good summary of what ER and the UN tried to accomplish with this document. The UDHR then goes deeper into specific