https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw Women's Movement 1820-1860 en-us 2017-12-05 23:39:24 UTC 2020-04-29 20:51:25 UTC hello@padlet.com kkaiulanii https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213542886 In the 1960's, the world of an American women's life was controlled in almost every aspect of their life from being a mother in a family life to the workplace.  A women is expected to follow one path: to getting married in her early 20's, starting a family fast, and devote her life to homemaking.  As women put it, "The female doesn't really expect a lot from life. She's here as someones keeper, her husbands or her children's." Wives bore he full load of housekeeping and child care, spending an average 55 hours a week on chores. They were legally subject to their husbands]]> 2017-12-05 23:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213542886 jacqueline_brandon https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213542943 one of the most effective womenʻs rights leaders was born into slavery in New York. Her original name was Isabella Baumfree. After gaining her freedom, she came to believe that God wanted her to crusade against slavery. Vowing to sojourn, or travel, across the land speaking the truth, Baumfree took the name Sojourner Truth.
Truth was a spellbinding speaker. Her exact words were rarely written down.  However, her powerful message spread by word of mouth.  According to one witness, Truth ridiculed the idea that women were inferior to men by nature:
"I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that"   (p.408 section 3 The American Nation]]> 2017-12-05 23:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213542943 tahan_valdez https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213542945 The womenʻs movement lasted around 70 years , starting with Jeannette Rankin's entry into Congress. Although it stretched for many years one of the biggest solutions to this problem was the ratification of the 19th amendment on August 18, 1920. It states "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

]]> 2017-12-05 23:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213542945 malakai_banaay https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213543170 Women were limited in respect in family and workplace. As such, wives bore the full load of housekeeping and child care, spending an average of 55 hours a week on domestic chores.they had no legal right to any of their husbands' earnings or property, aside from a limited right to "proper support"; husbands, however, would control their wives' property and earnings. In the US,for the first time, in 2011, women made up slightly more than half the workforce.]]> 2017-12-05 23:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213543170 kkaiulanii https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213543223 https://tavaana.org/en/content/1960s-70s-american-feminist-movement-breaking-down-barriers-women

http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lady/Womens-Rights/
-https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/19th-amendment

Page 148 in "The American Nation" history book
https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/womens-human-rights/


]]> 2017-12-05 23:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213543223 tahan_valdez https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213545537 Because of the movement in the 1800ʻs, today women are able to live free from violence, slavery, and discrimination; to be educated; to own property without needing to get permission without their husbands recognition; to vote for the candidates in congress of their choice; and to earn a fair and equal wage in the work force.]]> 2017-12-06 00:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213545537 jacqueline_brandon https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213545824 2017-12-06 00:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kkaiulanii/rzh4b2ccyubw/wish/213545824