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Had Women's Rights Improved? - Coggle Diagram
Had Women's Rights Improved?
Yes
19th Amendement 1920 ~ women given the right to vote
Women had the right to own property, control wages (economic opportunity)
More educational opportunities for women
White women were able to work and become office workers and phone callers
Women in Congress (Jannette Rankin 1916)
Birth control ~ women can have sex for enjoyment
Hull House, Jane Addams, a house for lower classes, immigrants.
Campaigned for better public health (TB)
Jane Addams also spoke out against labour laws
Seneca Falls New York 1848
Uncle Toms Cabin published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852
Consumer society, Labour saving technology 'the washing machine'
No
Women alienated people as people saw suffrage and prohibition as the same thing, this distracted people away for women suffrage
People saw the issue of prohibition and suffrage as too protestant
Backlash towards the 18th amendment (prohibition distracted / overshadowed the 19th amendement
The 19th amendment does not say that women are equal to men
The 19th amendment was overshadowed by the fact that Wyoming had the vote since the 1880's
There were splits within NWSA over slavery and prohibition
Southern, Rasist attitudes and Catholics think men and women are not equal