women's suffrage

Examples of women's suffrage in the following topics:

• The Political Participation of Women

  • Women's political participation has increased due to landmark events—women's suffrage and the election of women to public office.
  • Women's rights are entitlements and freedoms claimed for women and girls of all ages in many societies.
  • The women's rights movement functions in response to an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls in favor of men and boys.
  • Women's suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually, at state and local levels, during the 19th century and early 20th century, culminating in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • Break down the achievements and shortcomings of the battle for women's rights in the U.S.

• Gender and Social Movements

  • The feminist movement refers to a series of campaigns on issues pertaining to women, such as reproductive rights and women's suffrage.
  • The feminist movement refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment and sexual violence.
  • It focused on de jure (officially mandated) inequalities, primarily on gaining women's suffrage (the right to vote).
  • Since 1975 the UN has held a series of world conferences on women's issues, starting with the World Conference of the International Women's Year in Mexico City, heralding the United Nations Decade for Women (1975–1985).
  • International Women's Day rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, organized by the National Women Workers Trade Union Centre on 8 March 2005.

• The Conflict Perspective

  • Conflict theory suggests that men, as the dominant gender, subordinate women in order to maintain power and privilege in society.
  • Therefore, men can be seen as the dominant group and women as the subordinate group.
  • Until relatively recently, women in Western cultures could not vote or hold property, making them entirely dependent on men.
  • Conflict between the two groups caused things like the Women's Suffrage Movement and was responsible for social change.
  • This was due to women's dependence on men for the attainment of wages.

• Gender Inequality in Politics

  • Finally, we will consider assumptions made about women's political leanings on the basis of gender.
  • Women's suffrage, the movement to achieve the female vote, was won gradually at state and local levels during the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  • Women's suffrage took a back seat to the Civil War and Reconstruction, but America's entry into World War I re-initiated a vigorous push.
  • The National Women's Party became the first cause to picket outside of the White House, with banners comparing President Wilson to his German adversary, Kaiser Wilhelm.
  • The only deviation in this data had to do with competency in areas such as education that are typically perceived as women's domains and voters therefore trusted women politicians more.

• The Feminist Perspective

  • Feminist theory is a conflict theory that studies gender, patriarchy, and the oppression of women.
  • At the turn of the century, the first wave of feminism focused on official, political inequalities and fought for women's suffrage.
  • In the 1960s, second wave feminism, also known as the women's liberation movement, turned its attention to a broader range of inequalities, including those in the workplace, the family, and reproductive rights.
  • Currently, a third wave of feminism is criticizing the fact that the first two waves of feminism were dominated by white women from advanced capitalist societies.
  • The feminist perspective also recognizes that women who suffer from oppression due to race, in addition to the oppression they suffer for being women, may find themselves in a double bind.

• Feminist Theory

  • Although women were primarily ignored, barred, and/or disenfranchised within most scientific communities prior to the women's rights movement of the 1960's and 1970's (for a notable exception in Sociology, see Dorothy Swaine Thomas), women have contributed to scientific disciplines, methods, and theories since at least the 1830's.
  • Following the establishment of women's academic conferences and coordinated protests of the American Sociological Association's annual meetings during the 1970's, women made significant inroads into Sociology.
  • These early scholars also founded women's academic organizations like Sociologists for Women in Society to lobby for the admittance and inclusion of minority people and perspectives within scientific disciplines.
  • Cooper, Harriet Tubman, and one of the first African American women to earn a college degree, Mary Church Terrell; early black feminist writers promoting gender and sexual equality like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Bruce Nugent; early 20th Century writers and activists that sought racial civil rights, women's suffrage, and prison reform like Ida B.
  • Marxist feminists believe that the oppression of women stems primarily from capitalism, which exploits women's labor and is upheld through women's unpaid domestic labor.

• Women as a Minority

  • Underlying this unequal treatment of women is sexism, which is discrimination based on sex -- in the context of a patriarchal society, discrimination against women in particular.
  • It must, however, be noted that the issue is rarely as simple as that of men versus women.
  • It can also refer to simple hatred of men (misandry) or women (misogyny)
  • Women's rights are entitlements and freedoms claimed for women and girls of all ages in many societies.
  • Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include, though are not limited to, the rights to: bodily integrity and autonomy; vote (suffrage); hold public office; work; fair wages or equal pay; own property; be educated; serve in the military or be conscripted; enter into legal contracts; and to have marital, parental, and religious rights.

• Women in Medicine

  • Historically and in many parts of the world, women's participation in the profession of medicine has been significantly restricted.
  • In the 21st century, women continue to dominate in nursing.
  • Historically and in many parts of the world, women's participation in medicine (as physicians, for instance) has been significantly restricted, although women's informal practice of medicine in the role of caregivers and in the allied health professions has been widespread.
  • Women's participation in medical professions was limited by law and practice during the decades while medicine was professionalizing.
  • Analyze the role women play in the medical field and how gender parity affects women's choices when it comes to medicine

• Education and Unequal Treatment in the Classroom

  • Even as women's education became more robust, it was considered to be distinct from men's education.
  • By the mid-1800s, several women's colleges had been established, and many were coupled with men's universities as coordinate colleges.
  • The most famous women's colleges in the United States were known as the Seven Sisters colleges and included Mount Holyoke College, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Smith College, Radcliffe College, Bryn Mawr College, and Barnard College.
  • Today, five still operate as women's-only colleges, Radcliffe no longer accepts students, and Vassar is coeducational.
  • Despite the integration of men and women in university classrooms, women continue to face gender-based disparities and biases.

• The Feminization of Poverty

  • Women's increasing share of poverty is related to the rising incidence of lone mother households.
  • The responsibilities associated with motherhood further limit women's economic attainment.
  • Poor health reduced women's ability to earn income, and, thus, is a key factor increasing and perpetuating household poverty.
  • Countries with strong gender discrimination and social hierarchies limit women's access to basic education.
  • Employment opportunities are limited for women worldwide.