Susan B Anthony Research Paper

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Why as a society you're used to women being put down being non-dominant because let's face it, every woman wants to be in charge they want to have their own money car, house etc. The role of women in society has been greatly overseen in the last few decades but now are coming to a more perspective to people. In the early days women were seen as wives who were intended to cook, clean, and take care of the kids. They were not allowed to vote while the men took care of having jobs and paying any bills that had to be paid. In time women have caught on in realized that they should have a bigger role. Women have gone on to go on strikes write petitions go on marches to prove that they should have the same rights as men.Women have faced discrimination …show more content…
For example,Rosa Parks she Jump-started the Civil Rights movement and the Montgomery bus boycott. Susan B Anthony was a great activist and noted suffragette and early crusader for women’s rights. Because Susan B Anthony helped with women's rights it helped with the 19th amendment, which was to give women the right to vote. Owing to the fact that women stood up for what they wanted they were able to accomplish the right to vote and this was just the beginning of women coming in and dominating and getting what they want. Another example of this great leadership and great courage of a woman would have to be when rosa parks stood up and told the bus driver that she was not giving up her seat to a white person.being that she refused to give up her seat started the civil rights movement because has an American your given rights and segregation were violated the natural law that we have. On that note as a society women are looked at like being non-existing in a sense. This can be seen when someone says who was the person that helped with the civil rights movement you would think of Martin Luther King Jr …show more content…
to Montgomery. Society has changed tremendously for women such as style, Weaker Gender,Education,and many other things. How has the position of women changed over time in society. In earlier time we have seen women become more productive for example in the 1920s significant changes for women took place in politics,the home the workplace and education. Some were the results of voting and technology and all had to do with changing attitudes toward the place of women in society. In the 1970s this was a time where people were getting into the phase of the hippie. In this era women gained the rights to have abortions. Women were receiving more rights that they had in the past. In the 1990s women in this era were making big accomplishments, this decade of women reaching the top. For example Tracy Edwards captained the first all-woman team in the white bread round the world yacht race. The first woman speaker of the House of Commons was elected in 1992. The way women have evolved is incredible because in the 1800s husbands were allowed by law to beat their wives with a stick no thicker than a man's thumb and to lock them in the room, if they wished. Education was not available to working class women but,at