Susan B Anthony And Women's Rights

The issue regarding women’s rights is not a recent affair, there has been huge distinctive differences between men and women since the beginning. Starting from their different roles in society to stereotypical roles in the workplace as well as the home. Susan B. Anthony played a large role in the first women’s right’s movement that took place in the late 1800’s. The visual above took place in 1920’s. Three women apart of the National Women’s Party picketed the Republican Convention for its refusal to support the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, which was the Women’s Suffrage Amendment that supported women’s right to vote. It was not until 1919 that congress voted for states to consider the ratification of this Amendment. The three women included …show more content…
They started off with a convention, which was held in Seneca Falls, New York. After two days of discussion and debate, a handful of men and women signed a Declaration of Sentiments. This document adopted a set of twelve resolutions calling for equal rights for men and women under law as well as voting rights for women. But they still had many more issues at hand and one was; equality in the workplace, women did not receive the same wages as most men and were discriminated against. The quote shown in the visual although, is not credible. This picture would be considered ethically fallacious because it is misused, Anthony never said this. She said “I was never surer of my position that no self-respecting woman would wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her political rights.” The values of this visual are still principled, although the quote was not credible their morals stood …show more content…
Finally in 1903 the National Women’s Trade Union League was established to advocate for fair wages and work environments for women. The visual also uses a rhetorical question to ask why a woman would ever want to work in a place where she is mistreated and discredited for her work. This is effective in influencing something to be done about unjust workplaces. It also displays examples of logos because it would not be logical for this discriminatory behavior to continue. So finally in 1920 the Department of Labor was formed to collect information about women in the workforce and develop better working conditions. This time period is now considered the second reform of women’s rights.
Overall, in my opinion the image effectively get’s it’s purpose across using rhetorical appeals. It uses ethos to show that equality in the workplace between women and men is the ethical thing to do as well as morally right. Pathos, by representing the outrage of the women and logos for showing that it is only logical for men and women to be payed the same wages. I believe that this picture did reach the right audience because this was a popular propaganda poster for women’s rights movement at this time and helped inspire many people to support their