Rough Draft: the Basic Outline of a Paper Passing the bar exam and becoming a lawyer in the United States during the 1800s was a very strenuous task, even more, difficult for a female. In fact, prior to Arabella Mansfield, the idea of a female passing this onerous exam and entering the field of law was ingeniously unheard of. Women during this time period were often looked upon to complete chores, and to look after the children while the men did all of the unyielding work. "Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled,” Jane Addams, Suffragist 1834. Arabella Mansfield played a sizable role in the Women’s Rights Movement throughout the 1800’s that revitalized women to go against the idea that women stand in a subordinate matter in comparison to men. This movement helped gain women’s suffrage, the gaining of property rights, reproductive rights, the right to equal pay, and the right to vote. Although Arabella Mansfield was not the only female advocate to help change the face of Women’s Rights, she did have a significant impact on the right to vote, and the right for women to obtain the same jobs that men possess. Her augmentations to …show more content…
She was often told that she should stop her efforts and comply with the typical understanding that men are superior to women, yet she never did. Arabella Mansfield put it many hours of laborious work in order to pass the bar and become the first female lawyer. Through countless hours of studies, many papers, and exams, she never gave up. When she was the only female in her entire class and was consistently impugned amongst the preponderance of her community, she never gave up. She continued to put her all into everything that she did in hopes that one day, every other female in the world could do the