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The women’s suffrage movement
The women’s suffrage movement has been a decades-long struggle. It was a fight for the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly a hundred years to win that right. The campaign wasn’t easy disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement (Sapiro.,2019). The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was eventually ratified in August 1920. this favored all American women and stating for the first time that they deserve all the privileges and obligations of citizenship. The movement suffered various challenges, such as the anti-suffragism.
Anti-suffragism originated in the late 19th century, was a political movement consisting of both men and women. In countries as the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, she fought against women’s suffrage. Anti-suffragism was a predominantly Classical Conservative movement trying to preserve women’s status quo(Roydhouse.,2020). It opposed the principle of granting equal suffrage privileges to women. They believed in domestic feminism of women competing within the home. One of the reasons women’s resistance was that they felt that women were already equal, even without being allowed to vote. At the same time, women were supposed to be “equal” to men in various spheres.
Surprisingly, the movement was supported by men also. Many of their greatest supporters were their husbands, fathers, relatives, uncles, and other men. There were men across the nation who were themselves suffragists(Mead,.2018) .they lent their support to promoting the cause of women. Many young female suffragists were encouraged to take action in the political arena. They demonstrated family power because their fathers were politically active. In Western culture, the feminist revolution has wrought a change. More access to education is available; equal compensation for men; the right to initiate divorce proceedings; women’s right to make individual pregnancy decisions; and the right to own land. Domestic abuse has been minimized by feminism.
Work cited
Mead, Rebecca J. “The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. 2018.
Roydhouse, Marion W. The American Woman Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment: A Reference Guide. ABC-CLIO, 2020.
Sapiro, Virginia. “The Power and Fragility of Social Movement Coalitions: The Woman Suffrage Movement to 1870.” BUL Rev. 100 (2020): 2019.