This is a complicated question. Women's lives could vary significantly depending on their social class, the time period, and the region where they lived. The short answer is that most women did not rebel, in the way a 21st century woman might, because there was no social support for it, because individualism was not deemed a desirably personality characteristic, and because the punishment could be severe--even death.
Instead of "rebelling," a woman might work to gain personal autonomy--usually though, she had to be a widow with a lot of money, be lucky enough to marry a cooperative and loving husband, become an abbess, or have a personality that motivated others to go along with her will. These factors all depended on an individual woman's specific circumstances.
In some regions, such as Scotland, women traditionally had more autonomy and this persisted by custom even where the law did not necessarily recognize it.
Some women, such as Margery Kemp and Julian of Norwich, were mystics who devoted themselves to religion, but did not become nuns. Margery Kemp was already a wife and mother when she began having mystical visions; she decided to live a celibate life, but remained a laywoman.
Abbesses of wealthy abbeys could become extremely influential, but placement in important abbeys was limited to daughters of rich and powerful families. For many years such a woman would be one of many nuns, living a life of obedience. It would take many years, and great ambition and skill, to rise to the rank of abbess.
A person's character and accomplishments might earn her a lot of status and even control over her life, but this could only be gained over time. There are many examples of fascinating and powerful medieval women, but each one is unique.
In Europe at this time, women were viewed as being naturally inferior to men. They could not go to school and were considered to be the property of their father or husband. Women also could not vote in political elections. Many people opposed women's suffrage because they thought that women were too emotional to vote and that women needed to be protected from political life.
Some women and men began to advocate for women's rights. One of them was Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). Wollstonecraft was an English writer and teacher. She was inspired by the French Revolution but was disappointed that the revolutionaries did not support the rights of women. In 1792, Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in which she demanded that women have the right to vote and hold public office. She also called for the full education of women because she believed that women's lack of education kept them in a state of dependence. She believed that educated girls would be able to learn the skills needed to participate fully in public life.
Others followed Wollstonecraft's lead in promoting equality for women. The women's movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included demands for suffrage as well as fairness in property laws, divorce, and marriage. Emmeline Pankhurst campaigned for women's suffrage in Great Britain. She established the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903. Members were called the suffragettes. Their slogan was "deeds, not words." To further their cause, the suffragettes favored aggressive tactics over peaceful protests. They went on hunger strikes, chained themselves to railings, and set fires to bring attention to the women's movement. However, women in Britain were not granted full voting rights until after World War I.
The fight for suffrage took years and it is still going on. Women protested, chained themselves to the White House fences, paraded, wrote letters, and other things. Even today women make less money than men doing the same job. It wasn't until the 1990's that women were able to get their own credit and the percentage of women running corporations or in office is still low. In the 1980's women couldn't be fighter pilots. Not until the Iraq War was a woman a fighter pilot. Women's sports are suppose to get equal funding in schools and colleges since the passage of Title nine, but this is often ignored even today. Every time a new law is passed concerning conception or women's health care by men women's needs are ignored, so suffrage continues.
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they did whatever they needed to do like protest go on hungers strikes anything
by participating in hunger strikes
by chaining themselves to railings
Full Suffrage; with year voted.
Educated, white women should gain the right to vote before African american men.
You may be thinking of Mary Wollstonecraft, a British author and feminist who lived from 1759-1797. She advocated for women's equality, and became well-known for her book "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." But it was too soon for there to be a women's suffrage movement, although her work would inspire the next generation of feminists in the mid-to-late 1800s, and lead to a movement to gain women more rights, including the right to vote.
No, women did not have the right to vote in the 1600s. Voting rights were generally limited to property-owning men during this period, and it took several centuries for women to gain suffrage in many countries. The first significant steps towards women's suffrage didn't occur until the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The suffragetes a group of womens rights, fought for the for the right for women to vote.The move for women to have the vote had really started in 1897 when Millicent Fawcett founded the National Union of Women's Suffrage. "Suffrage" means the right to vote and that is what women wanted - hence its inclusion in Fawcett's title.
The purpose of women's suffrage was for women to gain the right to vote.
Full Suffrage; with year voted.
Suffrage, or the right to vote.
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Educated, white women should gain the right to vote before African american men.
Women did not gain the vote before the war because men thought that women would take over politically and gain more civil rights than men.
Woman in Michigan gained full suffrage in 1918.
educated, white women should gain the right to vote before African American men
In 1954 we(Belize ) gained universal adult suffrage
On August 26th, 1920 the 19th Amendment granting the vote to women becomes a law. Women vote for the first time in the presidential election on November 2nd.
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The struggle to gain the right to vote was part of the broader movement to emancipate women, a core socialist value. Conservatives believed that the woman's proper place was in the home and subordinated to her husband.