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This page is made to inform people about the experiences of women. I am making it as a project in my History class. On this page i will teach you about the women who changed history for everyone.
====Martha Ballard was the first women my class talked about. she was born in 1735 and died in 1812. She wrote a diary that talked about her normal everyday life. thanks to her diary we now more about the lives of every day women in those times.She was a mid wife. A midwife is a women who help deliver babes. Her diary talked about her job and what she did in a normal everyday day. She also used it to keep track of what money she made and what she spent money on. She did the shopping in the house and she also had a job and helped support her family.====



This is a panting of what a artist thought she wold look like. "Martha Ballard." Photograph.//Women Activists//. Web. 20 Oct 2011. .

The Cult Of True was the next thing we learned about. It was all about how women must stay in the home and that they had to be perfect angles. they had to stay pure, obedient and honorably. They were exacted to stay in the home. Men thought that women were to delicate or weak to be out in the world. people did not want women to be educated. There were four characteristics that REAL women had, they were piety, purity, domesticity. and submissiveness. One reason women were thought weak was because of menstruation. It was thought that clearly were ingerior to men, because men were not interrupted by illness every month.

"cult of true womanhood women." Photograph. //cult of true womanhood//. Web. 24 Oct 2011. . The Declaration of Sentiments is a document that Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, two women; who were activists for women rights called together the first conference to address Women's rights and issues in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Part of the reason for doing so had been that Lucretia Mott had been refused permission to speak at the world anti-slavery convention in London, even though she had been an official delegate. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others began a public feminist group to gain equity. The Declaration of sentiments is modeled after the US Declaration of Independence. It demanded that the rights of women as right-bearing individuals be acknowledged and respectd by society. It was signed by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men. There is still not an equal rights amendment that makes it a law to discriminate against sexes.



Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York she was named Isabella Baumfree (after her father's owner, Baumfree). She was sold several times, and while owned by the John Dumont family in Ulster County, married Thomas, another of Dumont's slaves. She had five children with Thomas. latter she left Thomas and ran away to the north with her youngest son latter she was reunited with anther of her sons.

in 1883 Isabella Baumfree took the name Sojourner Truth, believing this to be on the instructions of the Holy Spirit. In the late 1840s she joined the abolitionist movement, and become a popular speaker. In 1850, she also began speaking on woman suffrage. Sojourner Truth gave her most famous speech in 1851 at a women's rights convention in Ohio.

During the Civil War Sojourner Truth raised food and clothing contributions for black regiments. Latter she met Abraham Lincoln at the White House in 1864. While there, she tried to challenge the discrimination that segregated street cars by race.

After the War ended, Sojourner Truth again she spoke mainly to white audiences, and mostly on "Negro" and women's rights, and on temperance.

Active until 1875, when her companion fell ill and died, Sojourner Truth then returned to Michigan where her health deteriorated and she died in 1883 in a Battle Creek of infected ulcers on her legs. She was buried in Battle Creek, Michigan, after a very well-attended funeral.

"Sojourner Truth (1797 – 1883). Born (Isabella Baumfree)." Photograph. //about Sojourner Truth //. Andrew Barthelmes. Web. 30 Oct 2011. . Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, and by 1945 nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home. Why? The U.S.A. was at war. During World War II, some 350,000 women served in the U.S. Armed Forces, both at home and abroad. They included the Women's Airforce Service Pilots also factory workers and other home front jobs.More then 350,000 women joined the Armed Forces, serving at home and abroad. At the urging of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and other women's groups, General George Marshall of introduced a women's service branch into the Army. In May 1942, Congress instituted the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, later upgraded to the Women's Army Corps, which had full military status. Its members, were known as the WAC. The WAC women worked in more than 200 non-combatant jobs stateside and in every theater of the war. By 1945, there were more than 100,000 WAC and 6,000 female officers. In the Navy, members of Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) held the same status as naval reservists and provided support stateside. The Coast Guard and Marine Corps soon followed suit, though in smaller numbers. One of the lesser-known roles women played in the war effort was provided by the Women's Air Force Service Pilots, or WASP. These women, each of whom had already obtained their pilot's license prior to service, became the first women to fly American military aircraft. They ferried planes from factories to bases, transporting cargo and participating in simulation strafing and target missions, accumulating more than 60 million miles in flight distances and freeing thousands of male U.S. pilots for active duty in world war II. More than 1,000 WASP women served, and 38 of them lost their lives during the war. Considered civil service employees and without official military status, these fallen WASPs were granted no military honors or benefits, and it wasn't until 1977 that the WASP received full military status.

Meanwhile, widespread male enlistment left gaping holes in the industrial labor force. Women at home who could not join the WAC or the WASP soon filled the gaps in the workplace at home, representing 65 percent of the industry's total workforce compared to just 1 percent before the war began. The munitions industry also heavily recruited women workers, as represented by the U.S. government's "Rosie the Riveter" propaganda campaign. Based in small part on a real-life munitions worker, but primarily a fictitious character, the strong, bandanna-clad Rosie became one of the most successful recruitment tools in American history, and the most iconic image of working women during world war II. In movies, newspapers, posters, photographs, articles and even a Norman Rockwell-painted Saturday Evening Post cover, the Rosie the Riveter campaign stressed the patriotic need for women to enter the work force—and they did, in huge numbers. Though women were crucial to the war effort, their pay continued to lag far behind their male counterparts: Female workers rarely earned more than 50 percent of male wages.



"Rosie the Riveter." Photograph. Howard Miller. Web. 30 Oct 2011. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. Title IX is a law that requiers that all public schools to have equal opportunities for both males and females in everything they do. Most people who know about Title IX think it applies only to sports, but athletics is only one of 10 key areas addressed by the law. These areas are: Access to Higher Education, Career Education, Education for Pregnant and Parenting Students, Employment, Learning Environment, Math and Science, Sexual Harassment, Standardized Testing and Technology. Thousands of schools across the country are not in compliance with the law in one way or another rather it is sports or one of the other areas it applies to.The Title IX regulation describes the conduct that violates Title IX. To enforce Title IX, the U.S. Department of Education maintains an Office for Civil Rights, with headquarters in Washington, DC and 12 offices across the United States.



"title IX photo." Photograph. Web. 30 Oct 2011. .