LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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They were allowed to keep their own last names.
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They were allowed to work in business offices.
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They were allowed to vote.
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They were allowed to earn equal pay with men.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle-victory took decades of agitation and protest.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dutch women won the vote in 1919, and American women on August 26, 1920, with the passage of the 19th Amendment (the Voting Rights Act of 1965 secured voting rights for racial minorities). Irish women won the same voting rights as men in the Irish Free State constitution, 1922.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first attempt to organize a national movement for women’s rights occurred in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848.
Detailed explanation-4: -Women gained enfranchisement in the Central Provinces, in 1927, and in Bihar and Orissa Province, in 1929. At the end of the 1920s, franchise had been extended to almost all provinces in India.
Detailed explanation-5: -They also weren’t allowed to vote. By the mid-1800s, women started to fight back, demanding suffrage, or the right to vote. These women were called suffragists.