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Posted on October 26, 2008 by Felicity Grant | Posted under Politics
Women, Don't Take the Right to Vote for Granted
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The phrase women's suffrage refers to the political movement meant to grant women the right to vote. The suffrage movement is a broad term that encompassed women and men with a range of views and represents one of the most fundamental struggles of women in American history. Early proponents of the first women's suffrage movement started in 18th century Europe. The French Revolution accelerated this, with the declarations of Condorcet and de Gouges and the women that marched on Versailles. The writings of Antoine Condorcet and Olympe de Gouges were also pivotal during this time. The earliest TKs of the women's suffragist movement in America was during the Colonial America period. In 1756 Lydia Taft became the first woman to legally vote in New England Town Meeting in Massachusetts. But it wasn't until 1869 in American, when prominent women's suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton took up the fight, that the women's suffrage movement gained formidable momentum. Together Anthony and Stanton founded the National Women's Suffrage Association. Anthony was an important leader in introducing women's suffrage to the U.S. while Stanton was a social activist that presented her important and groundbreaking speech, the Declaration of Sentiments at the first women's rights convention in 1848. Their work was integral in the women's suffrage movement. Sadly both women died several years before women gained the right to vote. American women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920 when President Woodrow Wilson urged Congress to pass the 19th Amendment, which prohibits states and the federal government from refusing any citizen the right to vote because of sex. After the installation of the 19th Amendment, the women's movement took up where the suffragists left off. After World War II modern feminists like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem propelled the “women's liberation movement" with their writings and activism. In 1979 the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The Convention makes women's ability to vote a right. A few countries, mostly in the Middle East, do not subscribe to the Convention and continue to deny women their right to vote. Many countries still deny women (and in some cases men) the right to vote, like Brunei, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Vatican City. About The Author: For more info, visit http://www.subs4soldiers.com Felicity Grant is a freelance writer in Atlanta. |
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