Essays on Women's Right to Vote

Today I tried to vote in an election for congressman that was open to the public. I started getting questioned so I gave them answers that they wanted to hear. They later had sent a warrant out for my arrest so I made up some…

History as we know it was mostly documented by men, as a result, the roles played by women in the events leading to the Independence of our nation Nigeria in 1960 have been largely overlooked and forgotten. For hundreds of years, women have made notable…

Gloria Steinem once said that “Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking…

The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the…

In 1868, the fourteenth amendment passes. This amendment stated that all people who were born or naturalized in the united states are U.S. citizens. In 1870, the fifteenth amendment passed. This amendment states it the rights of U.S. citizens to vote and this right shall…

Women have been trampled on and viewed as inferior compared to their male counterparts for decades. By simply reading a novel by Shakespeare or a poem by Voltaire it is easy to see that females have generally been seen as nothing more than the child…

For as long as we can remember, men have been the dominant force in society. No matter the age or civilization, it was always men that were credited with advancing the culture and its people. But, what many don’t realize is that behind many of…

Although women have been subject to societal roles structured by men since the beginning, they have been able to greatly affect American History for the better. Women were treated poorly and held up to ridiculous standards, but they have evolved to break free of those…