According to Women’s Rights by Olivia Coolidge “When Lucy Stone, founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association, was born in 1818; her mother is quoted as saying, “Oh dear! I am sorry it is a girl. A woman’s life is so hard!” Her mother, as a farmer’s wife, baked and cooked over a wood stove for her family and washed, scrubbed and drew water from an outside well and heated it on the stove. She also made cheese and soap, plucked chickens, dipped candles, wove and dyed cloth, made the clothes, milked the cows, and cared for her children. Women were not permitted to give evidence in court, nor, did they have the right to speak in public before an audience. When a woman married, her husband legally owned all she had (including her earnings, her clothes and jewelry, and her children). If he died, she was entitled to only a third of her husband’s estate.”http://www.amit.org.il/learning/english/ew/life.htm
Modern day women don’t have to pluck chickens or milk cows (unless they want to) they have an easier alternative, but they still have to fulfill the same tasks by having to go buy groceries and pick up the kids from school. Women have been given more rights by not only giving evidence in a court but becoming the judge in the courtroom. In addition to having a little too much say on how much they get after a divorce. Although women have been given a louder voice and more rights, it hasn’t greatly affected women’s life styles. Women will continue to work hard it’s just been switch from working hard at home to working hard in public. You can change the scenery and try to make it seem all glammed up much like a fairytale but in reality it’s the same situation.
From Krystal
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