Women's Suffrage In The 1800s

Introduction

About 70 million children around the world do not attend school! More than half of these children are girls. Traditionally, women were supposed to stay home to do the housework. Even in the earliest democracies, women were not allowed to receive an education. Women’s suffrage is also something that started in the early days. Women’s suffrage is the right for women to vote. Sadly, women’s suffrage still exists in the world today. Those things are examples of gender inequality. Gender inequality is when women are not treated as equally as men. Luckily, there are many people around the world like Malala Yousafzai, and people from the NAWSA, who believe that women SHOULD be treated as equally as men. But unfortunately, there are still

Not all women were not allowed to vote, some women in colonial US that were members of land owning families, were allowed to vote in town hall meetings. Tough most times, these rights were taken away. Women didn’t approve of this so in the mid 1800s, women really started to fight for their voting rights. At the time more women were becoming educated and and were finding paying jobs outside of their homes. In 1848, two women suffragists, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, put together the ‘Women’s Rights Convention’ in Seneca Falls, New York. A few hundred people started attending, in which, some were men who. Due to this, many people started to ridicule the men and women who attended the conference. Despite this, women kept fighting. In 1890, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed. The NAWSA members protested, organized marches and rallies, and wrote letters to the government. Despite all their hard work, by the turn of the century, only four states in the US had granted women the right to vote. Luckily, in 1893, New Zealand had been the first country to give women the right to vote. Soon after, in 1902, Australia became the second country in the world to let women vote. Before New Zealand and Australia had given women the right to vote, in 1878, the ‘Woman Suffrage Amendment’ was introduced in congress to grant women the right to vote. The amendment

Malala Yousafzai is one of those people. Malala’s goal is to help girls receive an education. When the Taliban group took power over Pakistan in 1990, Malala was banned from going to school. If people spoke up, they were either kidnapped, tortured, or even killed. When Malala was eleven years old, she wrote a blog about the hard restrictions faced with the Taliban. Due to the Taliban fighting to stay in control of the area, many people in Malala’s town, including her had to flee. Malala was inspired to speak up about education. Many people started to notice Malala, including the Taliban. In 2012, the Taliban set out to assassinate her. They almost succeeded. The Taliban shot her in the head as she was getting onto her bus. Malala was in a coma for a bit more than a week. Many people were devastated about this tragedy. It took some time for her to get better, and in 2013, Malala went back to school. In 2014 when Malala was 17 years old, Malala received the Nobel Peace Prize. She was the youngest laureate ever to have received it. Malala once stated “All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.”