Women's RIghts in Marriage

Throughout history women generally have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. Wifehood and motherhood were regarded as women's significant professions. Resulting a stereotype that "a woman's place is in the home". Young girls tended to learn from her mother's example of cooking, cleaning, and caring for children because it was the behavior expected of her when she grew up. Neither the young girls families or their teachers expected them to prepare for a future other than marriage and motherhood.

Since Womens had a lack of education they were expected to marry in order to find someone to support them since they did not have the knowledge to do many jobs. This lead into the social and financial pressures that a women should get married. Most women were often married because girls parents would often search for a man who would be wealthy have a title and could advance their social status. A married woman, gave up her name, and virtually all her property came under her husband's control. Women's were legally defenseless to object on their Husbands opinions. Once there Husbands went off to work they expected their wives to do all the things their mothers had done for them. Cook, clean take care of the kids and always look like a doll all at the same time.

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http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/femhist/marriage.shtml

Women in Reform Movements

Women in the United States during the 19th century participated in a lot of reform movements to improve education, to initiate prison reform, to ban alcoholic drinks, and, during the pre-Civil War period, to free the slaves. A group of Women started Organization all about Women rights. Women's suffrage movement was the struggle to gain the same right to vote as men. Many Women who began to  participate in reform movements started to also find interest in politics.





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Women's Suffrage

Women's Suffrage campaign began in the decades before the civil war started. During the 1820s and 30s all kinds of groups were all over the US religious movements, anti-slavery organizations and more. In many of these groups women played a prominent role. Many American women were starting to be against what historians called the "Cult of True Womanhood" which ment that a true woman was a wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family. All of these contributed a new way of thinking about what it meant to be a woman in the United States.

During 1848 a group of activists, mostly women gathered in Seneca Palls in NY to discuss the problem of women's rights. Most of the delegates agreed American women were individuals who deserved their own rights. The Declaration of Sentiments produced "that all men and women are created equal","That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

What this also meant was that they believed women should have the right to vote.

In 1910, A couple of states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years. In 1923, the National Women's Party proposed an amendment to the Constitution that prohibited all discrimination on the basis of sex. Thats called Equal Rights Amendment.

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