Women's Rights Movement In The 1920s

In comparison to men, who have been voting since the united states declared independence, women have only been able to vote since 1920. Your mothers, sisters, and daughters have only been voting for 98 years, that is not many years in comparison to men, since began voting in 1920. Women proceeded to protest against the laws that restricted them, to have the rights they possess today. The history of their suffrage movement is instrumental in changing the law. The achievements they obtained helped in the developmental staircase to their goal. The effects were unfavorable, but in the end, women in the U.S. are now seen as adequate to vote. To understand the suffrage movement, one must look at the development of movement, the women who fought,

Alice Paul, the extremely dedicated and vital woman, once said “I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world” (“I Was Arrested, Of Course”… 1). She believed this because many women from the United States were stronger and educated through hardship. This hardship was learned when their husbands went off to war and the women had to learn what the men had to do to provide for their family. Miss Paul was a single-minded devoted woman who believed women should have the right to vote just as men do. She went to college in England, where she was seen as equal to men rather than under them in the U.S. Once said by Paul, “Freedom and Power to one half of society, and submission and slavery to the other” (“I Was Arrested, Of Course”… 2). This refers to how women and men are different in society. Men were often seen as superior over women, women were expected to take care of the children and the house. Essentially, the women of that society were under the assumption that women have to do everything the man of the house wanted them to, even if they were not comfortable with it. They were expected to create a “Safe Haven” for their husbands when they returned home from working a long

After all the years and years of fighting, women finally received the right to vote in 1920 and the effects were substantially important. They made all the hardship and all the time they spent seem worthwhile. African American women were doubly discriminated against because not only were they women, they were black women. On the pyramid of social classes black women were at the bottom. Some of the fighting involved women finding themselves, as well as birth rates declining, there was new technology, women were going to college, and did “self improvement”. On November 2, 1920 for the 1st time in history, more than 8 million American women went to polls and exercised their newly won right to vote. Them, the women, changing was very important to their movement. It showed that women were willing to do whatever it took to get what they wanted. It showed that they did not like the way they were being treated and wanted it to