Women have been fighting for their rights for everything from the freedom to own property to the freedom to vote. During the Seneca Falls Convention, Susan B. Anthony made a compelling speech that change many people’s views, both male and female. They fought for well over a year to obtain the 18 th Amendment which granted them the right to vote. Ever since then the world has been a better and more equal place. Before the 18 th amendment was granted, women had to go through terrible injustices and discrimination.
Anti-suffragists of the time feared that women were too weak and feeble to handle the pressures of voting. Some people dared to say that allowing women to vote could potential over turn the entire countries economy and governmental practices. They came up with completely absurd excuses to keep women from voting by saying such things as they could hide extra ballots in their valo ominous sleeves and vote multiple times. Suffragists on the other hand argued that women were not only stable enough to vote but that a large majority of the population of women were highly educated and fully capable of handling the responsibility of voting. They said that women had the right to participate in politics and government owes it to them to select their leaders because they worked just as hard as the men to get the country started.
Women slaved and sweated along side the men to farm and start industry and participated in all the behind the scene work that made everything possible.
The Term Paper on Voter Turnout Issues Vote Voting One
As executive director responsible for dealing with voter turnout it has become my solemn duty to address this issue and to come up with ways which I can greatly improve the outcome. I started out by first debating about why the turnout rate is so low, and have come to the realization that the problem is rooted in both the political parties and the citizens. Citizen's attitudes have always played a ...
