The History of Gender Discrimination

The History of Gender Discrimination

Lucy Burns

Susan Brownell Anthony

Current status

What is Gender Discrimination?

Although there have been multiple documents that were established to help lower discrimination, there are women that go through struggles in their daily lives. Women are not getting hired to a certain job because they are women and men still get paid more than women today. There are also gender stereotypes that apply to both genders that dictate how each gender is expected to act. Women have come a long way but there is still more to change.

Born July 28th, 1879 in Brooklyn, New York. Lucy burns was a American Suffragist (members of women's organization (right to vote) movements in the late 19th and early 20th century.) and woman's rights activist. She was very interested in Woman's Rights in America and the United Kingdom.

Burns and other suffragists had been told by the chairman of the House Committee on Suffrage that the House would not pass a suffrage amendment before 1920. To their surprise, it was announced in late 1917 that the House would make a decision on January 10, 1918. The amendment passed in the House by a vote of 274 to 136, and the women of the NWP, including Burns, began working on the 11 additional votes they would need for the amendment to pass in the Senate.Unfortunately on June 27, 1918, the Senate narrowly failed to pass the amendment.

(February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) Susan Brownell Anthony was a feminist and American Social Reformer who played a crucial role in the American Woman Suffrage Movement. In 1852 Susan and her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society. This society came about after Susan was prohibited from speaking at a Temperance confess because she was female. In 1863 they also opened the Woman's Loyal National League which got over 400,000 signatures in a petition against slavery. Finally Susan also founded National Woman's Suffrage Association in 1869. In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting in New York. Although she refused to pay the fine, the authorities declined to take further action. Eventually Susan was able to speak in congress about woman suffrage, the congress was in favor of the proposition and granted woman the right to vote in 1920, and became the 19th amendment of the U.S. constitution. Susan B. Anthony died at the age of 86 of heart failure at her New York home on March 13th, 1906.

Gender discrimination is when someone is treated poorly because of their gender,which mainly happens to women

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Jane Addams

Antoinette Brown

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Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a public philosopher, author, and leader in woman's suffrage & world peace. During the time, there were many activist but Jane Addams was one of the most prominent. She helped turn the concerns to American Mothers and mentioned the needs of children, local public health, and world peace. She depicted "if women were to be responsible for cleaning up their communities and making them better places to live, they needed to be able to vote to do so effectively." Jane eventually became a huge role model for middle class mothers across America. She was eventually awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 and became the first woman to do so.

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Born May 20th, 1825 in New York. After graduating, brown did not obtain a preaching license, so she turned to write in a local newspaper, The North Star. Brown spoke at the first national Woman's Rights Convention in 1850. During her speech she addressed issues such as abolition, temperance, and women's rights. Brown was eventually given a license to preach by the Congregational Church in 1851 and then offered a position as Minister of a Congregationalist church.

Following her separation from the ministry, she focused increasingly on women's rights issues. While many women's rights activists opposed religion on the basis that it served to oppress women