Women's Rights Movement: Topics In Western Civilization

Women’s Rights Movement

Bryant & Stratton College

Mattie Parham

HUMA 316: Topics in Western Civilization

Ms. Lilia Anand

June 04, 2016

The Women’s Rights Movement began July 13, 1848 in a residence where just a few women got together in Seneca Falls, New York. A declaration of Sentiment was drafted to declare equal rights to all men and women. In the beginning women were talking about social, education, economic, and the missing voice from in a political setting. In 1950 the first National Women 's Rights Convention took place in Worcester, Mass., and attracting over 1,000 women participants. The two women that stood for women rights are Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, a Massachusetts teacher, met in 1850 and forged a lifetime

Many were sent to elite finishing schools afterwards and more than half attended universities or colleges, and later some graduated from trade schools. Before coming to Congress many women were volunteers, and organizers in different social organizations. These activities mostly included suffrage and electoral reform, missionary and education work, public health, nursing, veterans’ affairs issues, legal aid, and childcare. The majority of the early women Congress members legislated in areas deemed by their society to be gender-appropriate; women were viewed as caregivers, educators, and consumers but this did not come across as being enough for some of the women. The pioneer women in Congress were scattered across over 30 house committees and most of them which ranked as lower-tier panels but not surprised the largest number of House women served on the Committee on Woman Suffrage before it was disbanded in December 1927. Congressional women did not vote or always agree on the viability of legislation and its programs that directly affected their gender as illustrated by the differences between the first and second women in Congress. There are many men to take care of the major crisis’s that is going on in the world but who is taking care of our

Second-generation women still made up only a small fraction of the total congressional membership. At their peak, 15 women served in the 83rd Congress between the year 1953 and 1955. These numbers afforded women some power to pursue a unified agenda, though few seemed apprehensive to champion on what would later be called “women’s issues.” The widow-familial succession remained for women a primary route to political office. More changes however began to slowly advance women’s status on Capitol Hill. By then any large amount of women voted into Congress between 1935 and 1954 had more experience as politicians or as party officials than did their predecessors. The time during of President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, through the direct and indirect efforts of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt chose to increase the number of Democratic women in Congress. Many of the women who rose back in the 30s to prominent positions in the federal government had known the First Lady since the days when she worked in Greenwich Village settlement houses and help to register women voters across New York State. In making these appointments, President Roosevelt broke with precedent and Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in the President’s