Social Inequities 1930's to 1940's: Gender by Sherlyn Trang (Student FVHS) https://padlet.com/sttrang100/b5ejzsqc6f4p Sherlyn Trang & Kristen Thai en-us 2019-10-22 16:22:06 UTC 2026-03-16 02:57:11 UTC hello@padlet.com Research Paper Link sttrang100 https://padlet.com/sttrang100/b5ejzsqc6f4p/wish/401265175 2019-10-23 04:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sttrang100/b5ejzsqc6f4p/wish/401265175 Who helped women gain their rights? kkthai100 https://padlet.com/sttrang100/b5ejzsqc6f4p/wish/401265791 Women themselves contributed to the gaining of their rights. Many women greatly impacted the cause like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul.  "Seven generations of women have come together to affect these changes in the most democratic ways: through meetings, petition drives, lobbying, public speaking, and nonviolent resistance." (Bonnie Eisenberg and Mary Ruthsdotter 1998) Women started to come together and held meetings to discuss the many ways they can do to help. This shows that were the ones that started the women's rights cause.
Women were very willing to help support the cause and take part in helping. They started a number organizations and held meetings of their own. ”When the meeting adjourned, a number of women came to me and asked for a copy of the resolution as they wished to present it for action to their own organizations.” (Lillian H. Kerr 1946) Women themselves wanted to take part and contribute in their own ways in leading their own organizations. This illustrates that women held a great part in contributing to the gaining of women's rights. They helped in their own ways doing as much as possible. Alice Paul was a vocal leader of the women's suffrage movement and secured the passage for the 19th amendment in the US constitution.


]]> 2019-10-23 04:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sttrang100/b5ejzsqc6f4p/wish/401265791 How were working women affected through this time? sttrang100 https://padlet.com/sttrang100/b5ejzsqc6f4p/wish/401266419 During this time period, the Great Depression was also a big contribution to what women were experiencing. The Great Depression was a time where many people, including men, lost their jobs due to the economic depression. Although women didn't have their rights at the time, there were actually many women who found jobs in large factories that weren't struck as hard in the stock marketing. An article stated,  “The main reason for women’s higher employment rates was the fact that the jobs available to women—so called “women’s work”— were in industries that were less impacted by the stock market.” (Jessica Rotondi).
Through this time, women actually found jobs, but unlike men, women didn't have very stable jobs. Towards the 1940's, women had slowly entered the workforce more, "From 1930 to 1940, the number of employed women in the United States rose 24 percent from 10.5 million to 13 million." (Jessica Rotondi) As their rates grew, their equalities started to grow as well. Women actually started to see themselves helping, and even with such little money, they were doing something many people at the time couldn't have done.

]]> 2019-10-23 04:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sttrang100/b5ejzsqc6f4p/wish/401266419 Why did people believe women needed their rights? sttrang100 https://padlet.com/sttrang100/b5ejzsqc6f4p/wish/401269393 Women were seen as people who were just house slaves. They had no actual job where they could help support their families, but were just told to stay home and help cook or clean the house. Some people believed women actually had their rights already, "Most people probably approve and desire such guarantees for women. They should be more active in support." (Florence A. Armstrong) If only people had spoke up and said something, women could have had their rights much long ago. Some on the other hand, "“Some feel that industrial women are not yet well enough organized to stand on their own feet.” (Florence A. Armstrong) Some people still don't believe that women back then could do more than just sit around, and they just didn't believe that women could do the things men did. 
People who actually cared for how women were treated actually talked about why we should change the Amendments for the better. " I feel,  therefore, after the most careful study of all sides of the question , that no amound of special benefit to women is good enough to offset the basic damage done to human equality." (Pearl S. Buck)  She believes that even with the small amount of effort we give to women would never change the fact that people have damaged equality so badly. She believes that women should get their rights, not because they are weak and need care for, but because they are humans who should be able to perform in all things others do as well. As she says, "The time has come, I believe, for our American democracy to declare itself on this matter of the equality of men and women in the State.” (Pearl S. Buck) It would then be a great time to allow women their rights so they could be free.


 
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