Essays on Women Suffrage

The prevailing cultural system appreciates and places superheroes in high esteem. This is true despite of these beings, regardless if they are humans or aliens, are only works of fiction and can only be seen in various forms of popular entertainment, such as in comics and films. In this regard, perhaps it is a safe premise that the society’s acceptance of super heroes is reflective of its desire to instigate progressive changes to their social and physical environment, and that these highly developed beings personify all the qualities that the society aspires to find in a single person, ...

Summary of the Paper

The ‘Municipal Housekeeping: The Impact of Women’s Suffrage on Public Education’ by Celeste Carruthers and Marianne Wanamaker is an informative paper that provides details on the extent to which women’s suffrage influences public education. From the paper, it is well evident that the reduction in the black-white gap has contributed substantially to the improved quality of black schools. The paper proposes that all these changes are as a result of major contributions by women. Today, as opposed to the past, more women exercise their voting rights thereby increasing the pivotal voter’s preferences for public education. The ...

The Role of Women as a Wife and a Mother in the 1870s

Throughout history, men are considered the dominant actors in political, social, economic, and military events. Rarely could one see a woman’s name in historical events in these fields, even see literature depicting the successes of these women without first touching their not so grandiose history, which usually depicted many hardships as compared to the history of heroic men one hears about. One reason for this rare occurrence is the fact that women back in the early centuries did not possess much power, right, and liberty in a male dominated ...