The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced to Congress in 1923 but did not get passed immediately. The ERA issue remained undeclared for almost 40 years. In the 1960’s, the 38% of women who were in the workforce had been limited to jobs such as a teacher, nurse, or secretary. This fact explains that women were generally not welcomed in professional programs that weren’t stereotypical to their gender. During the 1850’s, the first wave of the women’s rights movement had been put to a pause due to the beginning of the Civil War. After the war ended, people started to raise questions about suffrage since the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were being introduced. The Civil War beginning should not have been a factor in determining where the path of the women’s movement would travel. Women are finished with putting the opposite sex’s repercussions before fixing problems that they have placed onto
The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced to Congress in 1923 but did not get passed immediately. The ERA issue remained undeclared for almost 40 years. In the 1960’s, the 38% of women who were in the workforce had been limited to jobs such as a teacher, nurse, or secretary. This fact explains that women were generally not welcomed in professional programs that weren’t stereotypical to their gender. During the 1850’s, the first wave of the women’s rights movement had been put to a pause due to the beginning of the Civil War. After the war ended, people started to raise questions about suffrage since the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were being introduced. The Civil War beginning should not have been a factor in determining where the path of the women’s movement would travel. Women are finished with putting the opposite sex’s repercussions before fixing problems that they have placed onto