What came out of this?
In America, through the years we were trying to make a difference and did so in quite a few ways. We did so by setting up national organizations and of course starting campaigns to help with the rights for women and also set up other reforms as well. The women had to organize projects throughout unions such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the National Woman Suffrage Association and other institutions to get their point across. By doing so, women were able to be seen differently and taken more seriously than before but only to a certain extent.
These are the Pro's and Con's of it...
These are the Pro's and Con's of it...
Pro's:
Through their efforts some things did change... - women were able to uphold a profession that they were not able to have before because they were reserved for the men only - women were seen different through the media - women's equality was very well wanted in things; includes politics, religion, sports, and in many other things -overall the leadership and participation of women started to balance out between the women and men |
Con's:
Although a lot of efforts were made, gender equality was still not fully achieved as wished... - most women earned less than men - women were seen to become more poor than men Most of the jobs women could get were very low pay and like mentioned before this did not help when they got payed less than men as well. |
"It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and accustomed policy is not to ignore women. Men are chosen to fill high Government offices and the responsible, well-paid positions in industry. No comment was excited by the fact that no woman was a member of the Coal Commission, for instance, or of the Railway Wage Board, in whose hands lay matters of vital concern to women as housekeepers and as workers. Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically."
- Alice Paul, Women's right activist, the key person who pushed for the ninth amendment to come about