Summary: The Struggle For Women Rights and Wider Public Participation In The Late 19th Century

The Struggle For Women Rights and Wider Public Participation In The Late 19th Century
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The women's suffrage movements were a century's struggle to grant women voting rights. The struggle took almost a century for reformers and activists to attain that right. However, the struggle was not easy. The confrontations over tactics threatened to paralyze the women's movements in many instances. The 19th Constitutional Amendment was considered ideal on August 18, 1920, hence, institutionalizing all American women and arguing that they, like men, are entitled to public participation for the first era. The following essay will discuss how women in the late 19th century claimed their rights and more involved in the public spheres. Further, the essay will highlight what happened to Britain's women's suffrage movements in 1900 after women failed to get the voting right.
During the 1800s, women's suffrage movements worked not only for voting rights but also for broad-based political and economic reform. The percentage of women working in the United States rose drastically from 2.5 million to 7.7 million in the late 19th century. However, despite women starting to work in business and industries, men, on the other hand, held the most paying jobs. Consequently, domestic workers consisted of 65% of all women workers in the late 19th century. Women attained the right to own land, run their wages, and, during divorce, women were entitled to the child's custody.
Women's organizations also championed many socio-economic reform issues. Women's suffrage movements in cities and towns across the nation were attempting to enhance suffrage, child labor regulation, better learning institutions, women in labor unions, and liquor prohibition in the late 19th century. The concepts at the heart of domestic ideology, as enacted by a wide range of advice sermons, literature, novels, scientific writing, and periodicals, specifically defined the informal and formal spheres about women. Because women were psychologically frailer and morally less adaptable to the amoral, if not immoral, continues to struggle that characterized the public sphere of the economy and politics, they were efficiently kept in private.
Women's recognition of domesticity as a moral fortress against the public world's ethically dubious temptations and entanglements reinforced a sexual revolution. Domestic ideology highlighted a woman's resistance to sexual urges as necessary to her main job as moral keeper of the family, where sexual purity ...