WOMEN'S RIGHT

Women's Right by Anna Howard Shaw

Women's Right by Anna Howard Shaw

Introduction

The first Women's Rights Convention which was a first step taken for women's voting rights took place on 19th and 20th July, 1848. The occasion of convention went well and after the couple of the days of meeting, the Declaration of the Sentiments and even the 12 resolutions received an agreement with approval for some amendments. There was one resolution which was not passed collectively was the issue of women's agreement.

The voting of women in elections didn't seem possible for some of them. During convention, argument over the woman's vote was the major concern. Women's Rights Conventions use to take place regularly from 1850 till Civil War. Some drew huge crowds because of which people had less meeting space. Elizabeth Stanton, Susan Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Sojourner Truth, the major activists traveled throughout the country giving speeches and preparing the people for the coming 40 years. Getting the vote right was the major topic, as the vote could give the reasons to achieve other reforms which were also important. The movement for woman's voting right even went past through continuous opposition which took around seventy two years for the women and their male supporters to win. (Kraditor, 1965)

The women and men are different and have different abilities and needs but being different does not mean being inferior, not even because of the differences. When a person harms another person, due to a difference, has a certain power or privilege, commits an abuse and may be committing a crime. In our society there is a culture of discrimination of women, and men often spouses, children, bosses, abuse of power that gives them their power or authority and cause damage to property, physical psychological or women who come forward to report a crime or claim a right, even though the Constitution says explicitly that women and men are equal before the law, which is to protect the family. (Whitman, 1985)

The role of Anna Howard Shaw

The time of Women's Rights Movement, women faced lots of problems to win the American civil right to vote and later they got it in 1920. Anna Howard Shaw was the major person in the struggle for American's voting rights and her lifetime achievements includes her work in religion, the fields of women's rights, medicine which made her very famous. (Buechler, 1990)

Anna Howard Shaw was born in England on 14th February, 1847. When she was four years old, her family moved from England to America, where they lived in Boston in the state of Massachusetts. Anna Howard Shaw was the main person who anchored the movement for the rights of America's women. There was a male dominated society during the nineteenth century when women were not allowed to participate a lot in the public matters. She was a doctor by profession and later on in her life she decided to fight for women's rights to make them competitive in ...