https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq Why did society treat women so unequally? Was there a law that was enacted to help women go to college? en-us 2016-09-26 13:16:41 UTC 2016-09-27 13:08:13 UTC hello@padlet.com http://d262le4z25sx36.cloudfront.net/portraits/weigh.jpg https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126356155 2016-09-26 13:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126356155 surdzialeli https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633324 In the older times, women were treated unequal. This is because society believed that women weren't as capable to do things that men did. Not just men believed that men were supreme, but women did too. Which really begs the question: why would women not stick up for each other when one of them was fighting for their rights? I have two theories/answers to this question:
1. Women were afraid that they would get in serious trouble if they supported Elizabeth.
2. Women underestimated their abilities and/or agreed with men that they were less than men.]]> 2016-09-27 12:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633324 https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633344 I believe that the injustice was that they didn't even give Blackwell a chance. An  when she finally got her chance she finished at the top of her class and even after she had a hard time working anywhere.]]> 2016-09-27 12:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633344 macintyremic https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633351  Society treated women so unequally because men didn't treat the women like they should be. As men were going to work every day, the women would stay back at their houses cleaning, cooking, and caring for their children. The men thought that they weren't the smartest people, thus making them do the "easy" work. 
There was not a law that helped women go to college, because men did all of the work outside of the house. While entering college, [Blackwell] was the only woman in her graduating class. She was often discriminated by the men that she was a woman, and there was no place for her to be in a medicinal field. So instead of becoming a surgeon, they put her in the maternal field, helping the women who were in labor, or about to be. They felt that the women would feel more comfortable with a woman in the room, instead of a man. Though Blackwell was in the medicinal field, she still wanted to become a surgeon.
Since women could not vote until the early 1920's, they had no political power in what they could say to change anyone's mind. Women had the right to vote in the 1920's, like I stated, and Blackwell died around that time, unable to see a part of history that changed the world.]]> 2016-09-27 12:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633351 https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633356 I personally think women were treated so unequally back then because the general public most likely were still under the impression that men were superior to women in almost every way. (This, of course, is not true as we know today) Additionally, I have two questions about the text. The first of these that I have is why wasn't Elizabeth Blackwell wearing protective goggles of some sort while working on the sick baby's eye? Secondly, and for my last question, how did Elizabeth end up paying the expenses for the New York Infirmary for Indignant Women and Children, even though it was always in financial need. ]]> 2016-09-27 12:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633356 https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633542 Why did society treat women so unequally? Its simply because society thought that women were not as capable or as smart as men. Back in that time, they all thought men were more superior. What they didn't know was that women were capable and smart also. But, at that time there were no female doctors so it was defiantly a change. They put the women to easy work or just to clean, cook, and take care of the children. ]]> 2016-09-27 12:49:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633542 https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633689 Women were not treated with the same respect as men because society assumed that men were more successful and accomplish more things than women. Of course we know today that is not true.  Society back than would think very highly of men. Even in the 1800 the women were just as intellegent as the men. Who knows maybe the women could have been amazing doctors if they had the same training as the men so instead of people assuming that the men were the only doctors they should allow the women to get the same training as the men.]]> 2016-09-27 12:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633689 https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633792 Society treated women so unequally because only men were doctors. People assumed men were smarter than women. When Elizabeth Blackwell got accepted into the school she was the first women to be enrolled for school to be a nurse because everyone just thought that men are smarter than women are. Now women go to college and are allowed to be nurses. ]]> 2016-09-27 12:50:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126633792 https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126634342 Back when Elizabeth Blackwell was alive society treated women very unequally. Society believed that women couldn't do everything a man could. It was so unfair that Elizabeth couldn't find a job as a doctor even though she graduated top of her class. There was no law enacted to help women go to college, in fact they were not allowed to vote until 1920]]> 2016-09-27 12:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126634342 https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126634664 So why did society treat women so unequally . Well quite simply put it , it was a different time men were know as the mighty strong and smart men , we know that this is not true women are just as smart and strong as men , but at the time it was not common for women to work as doctors and more at that time . Quite frankly people don't want there opinions and ideas crushed especially when that idea was the most common in that time. a civil rights law helped women go to collage. so in the end yes there was a law to help women go to collage and yes society was very unequal , that's all for now (o.o)]]> 2016-09-27 12:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126634664 https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126636344 I have a “small” question. Why was it looked down upon for women to become doctors? If anything, becoming a doctor should be looked up to, regardless of the gender. Becoming a doctor is a great achievement, and a great thing to brag about for most. Sadly, women were seen as almost useless back then. When you think about it, people back then were so ignorant that they couldn’t even give women a chance. Fortunately, that’s changed now.]]> 2016-09-27 12:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126636344 martinezalf https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126637495 Society treated women unequally because they thought that men were superior. They made women do all the easy work and women couldn't get jobs that most men had. There wasn't a law that helped women go to college.]]> 2016-09-27 13:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tmyres/5ozeskbeayoq/wish/126637495