Women’s Suffrage Movement

Women’s Suffrage Movement

Members of movements advocating for the rights of women experienced a lot of challenges. For example, wealthy white men intimidated frontrunners of this movement and wanted women to continue clinging on their gender-related roles without voting. Personalities such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony played a substantial part in fighting for the rights of women. Besides, high profile individuals played a substantial role through activities such as media publications.

The association for the rights of women can be attributed to the Seneca Falls Convention. The convention’s main role was to fight for the voting rights of women. Susan B. Anthony and other like-minded individuals petitioned against the administration while the majority of the campaigners supported the civil rights movement (Congressional Research Service 2). Susan also fought for the rights of women to own property and elimination of abuse of women based on religious beliefs. Seneca Falls Convention, however, played a significant role in Susan’s active role in fighting for the rights of women generally. 

Many American women realized that womanhood was not all about being a submissive wife and mother whose main role was making a home and a good family. The belief that both men and women are equal, everybody deserves political identity and that all human beings are born with certain inalienable rights such as the right to liberty triggered the belief that women should vote which led to the formation of the Women’s Suffrage Movement (Cohen 715).

However, several factors led to the intensification of the fight for the right of women to take part in voting. For instance, women believed that for them to obey the set rules they needed to take part in making them and they believed that the laws that were discriminative to females would be modified rapidly if they took part in voting (Cohen 717). Besides, the participation of women in voting would lead to the just treatment of females in the community service and regulation for the protection of children would be possible if females took part in voting.

A big number of women took part in elections in 1920 in the U.S. Their right to vote can be attributed to the tremendous efforts that were made by personalities such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Marie Howland, and Susan B. Anthony. Susan B. Anthony’s efforts to fight for the freedom of females were drawn from her parents who brought her up to be liberated and honest. They believed that both men and women should pursue education, work as equals and commit themselves to eliminate any kind of repression in the world. As a high school teacher, she believed that male drunkenness was evil and ended up hurting women and innocent children as a result of abject scarcity caused (Partridge 18). She was also a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society where she fought for the abolishment of slavery. As the president of the National American Woman Suffrage, she continued fighting for the rights of women vote until her demise in 1906.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s fight for the rights of women was triggered by the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London where she was denied entry. This kind of injustice affirmed to her that women needed to pursue equality. In collaboration with other like-minded citizens, she organized a women’s rights convention where the participants agreed that females possessed the same rights as men and therefore needed the right to vote (Stillion 162). Seneca Falls Convention paved the way for women suffrage. She believed in abolishment of slavery and firmly fought for women’s rights not only on voting but also on issues such as marriage and divorce, education for women and campaigned against women’s oppression based on religious beliefs.

Marie Howland also played a pivotal role in the fight for the rights of women and tried to eliminate the notion that women were meant to carry out domestic chores. She advocated for respect, payment, and organization of domestic work (Washington State University 36). Besides, she worked towards removing obstructions to financial freedom for women through the elimination of establishments that theorized home as the center of women’s existence. She wanted women to carry out their daily activities at free will.

Many opportunities arose as a result of women suffrage. The movement created a higher expectation for women as they were able to pursue education (Washington State University 39). As a result, they were able to penetrate what was considered as male-dominated professions such as politics and medicine. As a result of the movement also, the role of women in economics in society increased. Due to the education, they had acquired, women had engaged in professional careers where their salaries increased substantially (Ridarsky and Huth 117). Besides, the movement necessitated the need for women in important decision making events such as World War 1. As a result, Congress passed the bill on women’s right to vote in 1920. Women, therefore, achieved the justice they had been fighting for, for decades.

Women’s suffrage movement faced a myriad of challenges. For instance, the leaders of this movement regularly disagreed about the strategies and whether to prioritize federal or state reforms (Ridarsky and Huth 112). Besides, wealthy white individuals and especially men attempted to halt the open-minded reasoning of majority frontrunners of the association and wanted the women to uphold gender-related roles such as giving birth and raising kids and not taking part in elections.

In conclusion, women suffrage is significant. Research on this topic was of substantial use as it acted as an eye-opener on how society has evolved. Dedicated and determined women’s personalities had to step up and fight for the rights of women to vote, attain education avoid discrimination based on religious beliefs. Researching women’s suffrage made me realize that women are strong creatures who fiercely fought for what they believed in. For instance, personalities such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony had to step in and fight for the freedom of other females. Although they faced challenges such as wealthy white individuals and especially men who attempted to halt the open-minded reasoning of majority frontrunners of the association and sought the women to uphold gender-related duties such as giving birth and raising kids and not taking part in elections they kept on pushing until they got the voting rights in 1920.

Works Cited

Cohen , N Philip. “Nationalism and Suffrage: Gender Struggle in Nation-Building America.” Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2010): 707-727.

Congressional Research Service. “Women’s Suffrage: Fact Sheet.” Congressional Research Service (2019): 1-7.

Partridge, Brittany M. “Georgia Women and Their Struggle for the Vote.” Georgia Southern University (2014): 1-33.

Ridarsky, Christine L and Mary Huth Huth. “Gender and race in the American society.” Boydell and Brewer University of Rochester Press (2012): 1-256.

Stillion, Belinda A. “”ADDRESS ON WOMAN’S RIGHTS” (September 1848).” Voices of Democracy (2011): 152-169.

Washington State University. “Woman Suffrage Exhibit.” Washington State University (2016): 1-75.

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