Susan B. Anthony: An Outstanding Woman

Women have been through a lot facing a challenge to challenge. One of the challenges was discrimination in the United States. Women’s rights movement and slavery movements started at the same time. With the slavery movements, this would overlook the women’s movement through the 19th century. Later in the 19th century, the women’s movement started again, and at the beginning of the 21st century. Women’s movement faced major challenges from political to equality in the United States that would change how women would live and be looked at later in the future for the better.

Many women wanted more for their lives and many women played a significant role in the temperance league, religious movement, moral reform societies, and anti-slavery movement. Women faced so many issues through their time and had many leaders to push every lady for a better life and have equality and full rights as men did. One major issue women had was how they were looked at, they were viewed at stay at housewives that only their only job was to take care of the house and the family. But what changed their role from being housewives to becoming nurses and more? I believe what came to the best thing for women was the wars. When the civil war came women got major opportunity to show their skills outside of the house. Women became “nurses, laundresses, and volunteered to help with others”. Now it did not mean all races would get treated fairy but still, for example, African Americans females slaved but with the civil war they believed they would get their freedom by helping out but it really wouldn’t they would still be discriminate in public and lose jobs and be treated badly. With all these movements and issues coming to rise it brought to new ideas and thinking to women on how it felt to be a woman and a citizen in the United States.

At the end of the Civil War, the 14th and 15th amendments come into play. So did famous women that lead the way for women movements her name is Susan B Anthony she believed this was the time to push for suffrage. Women wanted everything that men were getting because they believed they were created equal. One of the movements that fought for women’s right to vote was the “National American Women Sufferage” lead by Elizabeth Candy. This movement was very successful and convinced other states to give women the right to vote like “Idaho and Utah”. Once the civil war came to an end a new war came into action that would benefit women which were World War 1. The war allowed women to prove to everyone that they were as patriotic and deserving of citizenship as men. With World war 1 done and what the women did it paved the way for the 19th amendment to be created and making women finally be able to vote. You would think by allowing women to vote would end discrimination towards other races but no discrimination was still in “education and employment”. Later women faced another challenge which causes women to be paid less or lose a job to men. So women made movements for equal rights. A civil rights act of 1964 was made to help women from discrimination and sex but that act was completely ignored. Women organized a movement called the “National Organization for Women”. The organization was very successful in the push for equal rights amendment which had failed due to the lack of attention towards it.

Did women get treated badly? Yes, they did. At the end of the civil to the beginning of the 21st century, women achieved a lot though from getting the right to vote to the push towards non-discrimination. Women would still get treated with no resect but it’s not as bad as it was before where they were only known as housewives that took care of the house and family only. Women are honestly stronger than man and can prove themselves anytime. People like Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Candy are one of the Ideals to women and men that we will never forget what they have done. Women would eventually get the entire respect they deserved later through the years and this would always be apart of history to remember.