1. What do these women have in common?
Ann Frank
Mother Teresa
Billie Jean King
Amelia Earhart
Coco Chanel
Margaret Thatcher
JK Rowling

2. Do you believe that women are treated equally to men today? Examples?

3. What is this picture about?

5. A look at Women’s suffrage…

6. Women Gain Rights…
Before 1920, only criminals, the insane, Native Americans, and women were denied the vote.
Working class women were usually expected to hand over their wages to their husbands, fathers, or brothers.
Without being able to vote, women had little influence on politicians who could look after their interests

7. Women addressing Social Issues
The Temperance Movement
The practice of never drinking alcohol
Led by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Headed by Frances Willard
18th Amendment – outlawed alcohol

8. Margaret Sanger
Thought that family life and women’s health would improve if mother’s had fewer children
- Opened the country’s 1st birth-control clinic

9. Women’s suffrage (Women’s Right to Vote)

10. Pioneers in Women’s suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

11. National Woman Suffrage Association
Fought for the constitutional amendment that would grant women the right to vote.
Argued that if the Constitution had been amended to extend the right for African Americans, it should be amended for women.

12. Carrie Chapman Catt

13. Carrie Catt
Introduced the Society Plan to recruit wealthy, well educated women
Women from all levels of society and nationalities promoting suffrage were called “Suffragettes”

14. Besides the right to vote, the women’s movement called for…
1. Improvements in education
2. Reforms of corrupt government
3. labor reforms (passage of child labor laws)

15. The right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex
The 19th Amendment
The right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex
(Gave Women the right to vote)