Women's Movement In The 1920s

The women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s worked to grant women the right to vote nationally , thereby allowing women more political equality.
Wanting to ensure the standards and profound quality of the “home”, many women were involved in social advocacy with the end goal to help amend the inadequacies in the changing nineteenth century.
Women strived to “improve… the conditions of child workers, the mentally ill, those imprisoned, and the slaves… it was the result of women’s participation

The women’s movement brought together notable women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony, who worked tirelessly to bring the issue of the “women vote” to the national forefront.
Viewed as a radical gathering, the Seneca Falls Convention in New York Brought together 300 women to “specify the ways in which American society degraded women and how number laws and social conventions hindered them in their ability to protect their homes and families.
Adopted as the Seneca Falls Convention, the Declaration of Sentiments outlined to ways which women were actively and purposely prohibited from taking part in the political realm of society. This convention was credited with being the “birth place of the women’s rights movements”. Bringing the issue of women voting to the national level. These delegates at the convention, now suffragists were focused on securing political equality for women. While working form the vote, these women faced opposition from both men and women who did not see women voting as a means to improving the