What did women do to stop womens suffrage?

Answer 1

Most women did not try to stop suffrage, they fought for suffrage in the 1920s. However there were some that tried to stop it with marches and petitions. The term suffrage means that they got the vote which is where confusion arises. This is because the word is similar to suffer in spelling which is why I think you are confused. Getting people to sign petitions against women's suffrage is often used as a joke as well to show that people do not understand politics or language as well as they should.

Answer 2

Woman Suffrage- the word has nothing to do with ( Suffering, by the way) came into being with the Nineteenth Amendment in the twenties extending the right to vote to Women. The women who supported Women"s suffrage movement before it became law were known, collectively as Suffragettes- the female suffix used. Best known of the group were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton- get it right it is NOT Elizabeth Candy Stanton!) There were later reform-minded females who stayed the course after the suffrage movement became fact- such as Carrie Chapman Catt. The last named died some time around l940 so she was a more modern- yet having roots, Suffragette. It is of some interest that the Roman Catholic Church kept its distance from the entire movement- though after l922 ( when it was legal for women to enter the voting booths)- there was a group formed called St. Joan"s international alliance- as Joan of Arc was not canonized until l920- well it took a while to get up steam . the St. Joan"s Alliance is not an official church society like , say the Franciscan Order or Dominicans, St. Vincent De Paul society, etc.

Answer 3

They didn't stop the fight for the right to vote but many women helped to make the fight more difficult and years longer.

There were many women who upheld the Victorian view of women and society: that a woman's place was in the home, women were too weak minded and irrational to take part in political life by voting, were too innocent and in need of protection to take part in public life and should rely on and support all their husband's decisions. Therefore, they didn't need to vote. Of course, this position always ignored the reality that there were thousands of women who worked and had no husbands and had no protections from the men they worked for. They had no voice in the halls of justice nor in the halls of political power. Men had total control over their destinies and could continue to pass laws that benefitted men.

The Women's National Anti-Suffrage League was founded in London in 1908 under the sponsorship of thirty peeresses and other branches soon followed. It joined forces with the Men's National League for Opposing Women's Franchise and that provides historical evidence of the horrific resistance faced by the women who worked tirelessly for the right to vote.

Those opposing organizations had more members and many more resources than the groups fighting for women's rights. There were many mothers who forbid their more modern thinking daughters to participate in the fight for the right to vote.

There have always been groups of women who defeated their sisters' battles for freedom from subjection. That reality is clearly evident in modern eastern cultures where women abuse other women by performing female circumcision on young girls, ignore the rape of their daughters by male family members and help to kill daughters-in-law who fail to produce male offspring.

Answer 4

I'm not sure what you are asking. "Suffrage" is an older word no longer used today, but it means getting permission-- in this case getting permission to vote. The problem was that only men could vote, and women had no way to express their views about how the country was being run. Laws varied from state to state, and in many states, women had few legal rights. So the women's suffrage movement wanted to address the issue of women being considered citizens who could participate in our democracy. And in 1920, the 19th amendment was finally ratified, giving women voting rights. So, there wasn't a solution to women's suffrage: rather, women's suffrage was the solution, since it solved the problem of women not being allowed to vote.

Answer 5

The Suffrage movement in the United States was active from the 1840's until the adoption of the 19th amendment in 1920. Many western territories allowed local suffrage as early as the 1870's, in part to help convince women to settle in parts of the country almost exclusively populated by men. Every woman had her own mind - one famous female anti-suffrage activist was Helen Kendrick Johnson. What she did was give lectures advocating that women take charge of their household duties and leave the voting to men. There is a patriarchal tradition in many societies, and in Europe that tradition is arguably supported by parts of The Bible (though some Christians would now argue the gender roles were facts of biblical times and a meaningful metaphor, but not rules for our time) - that is probably the main reason why some women spoke out that the tradition should be preserved. As with today, many women, and men, were busy with day to day business and didn't participate one way or the other.