Essays on Women's Suffrage

“Humans rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights”- Hillary Clinton Why as a woman couldn’t I vote in 1918? “How will people react? What will people think of me? But I’ll finally have my voice heard as a woman, and I’ll have...

Human Rights has become a common topic of conversation within many social media platforms today. These important conversations help to educate us in what is happening around the world concerning the rights of human beings and also what rights we actually possess depending on where...

The argument over whether World War I was the main reason for women achieving the vote in 1918 is undeniably complex and has caused a large divide between historians. The supporting view of this statement is largely held by traditionalist historians such as Marwick, Phillips...

Women’s Suffrage is the term used to describe women’s rights to vote and the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States was the long overdue battle women fought in order to gain this right. Although Women’s Suffrage was granted in 1920, the fight to achieve...

A major issue that existed in America in the 19th and 20th century was women’s suffrage. Women all over the country argued that they should have to right to have a say in political matters especially when it regarded themselves. The campaigning started in the...

Emmeline Pankhurst was born in 1858 in England. She grew up with an interest in politics and women’s suffrage. She was heavily involved in strikes for working womens rights, such as the London Matchgirls strike in 1888. She started a political organization, the Women’s Social...

Just as the world war is no white man’s war, but very man’s war, so is the struggle for woman’s suffrage no white woman’s struggle, but every woman’s struggle. Carrie Chapman Catt wasn’t always completely sure exactly what she wanted to do in her life,...

In 1916, the play “Trifles” was made by Susan Glaspell. She was conceived in Davenport Iowa. “Trifles” was produced using a real killing court case and subsiding of a farmer’s better half that Susan Glaspell was covering while then working for Des Moines News. The...

At first President Wilson was not very responsive to the women’s protest. At points he even seemed amused with it by tipping his hat and smiling. It was said that at one point Wilson even invited them in for coffee. At other points in time,...

Women fought a long, and difficult fight in order to gain the same privileges that males have. Despite their efforts, women today still aren’t as equal as we’d like to be. However, we wouldn’t be at the place we were now if it weren’t for...