The Role of Women from the 19th to the 21st Century

Times were changing for America not only were women voting but they were starting to make their own dHistorically women have been fighting for equallity since the beginning of time. Women's role for centuries has been the care taker for the husband and the children. The woman was not looked at as equal to the male population. The 19th and 20th Century was a time of change. America was one the most wealthy and powerful countrys in the world and Women were taking on a new role . The struggles of women in the 19th century caused a movement know as the "suffrage movement" and while many people oppossed this movement a new amendment was passed in 1920. The 19th Amendment made it illegal to keep any American out of the voting booth based on gender. Besides being able to vote, work and decide if they wanted to marry or have a chosen career many women were expressing their new found independence through was what considered by some to be of a "rebellious" nature. The fight and determination of the women of the 19th century and those before them has evoloved women into being just as influential as men. Women of today are up-holding roles that were once dominated by the male gender, therefore, making women just as influential and powerful in both politics and in the work force.

In 1647 a woman by the name of Margaret Brent, an English immigrant settled in the Colony of Maryland. She was the first woman to ever appear as a attorney before a court of Common Law as representative for Lord Baltimore. On January 21, 1648, she attended the court where she requested a voice in council and two votes as a landowner and the other as the Lord's attorney. The governor refused her request as such rights were only given to Queens. She was viewed as a feminist for her stance for her rights and legal preogative as an unmarried woman that owned property, she died in Virginia in 1671.

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1n 1790 New Jersey gives the right to vote to "all free inhabitants", the law is revoked...