In my opinion, the women’s movement was the most important reform of the progressive period. If I had lived during this period, I don’t know how I would have survived being treated the way these women did. Men were the only ones who could go out, get jobs, or participate in their community. Women were expected to sit home taking care of the children, cooking and cleaning. They were not respected or treated …showed first 75 words of 359 total…

…showed last 75 words of 359 total…mothers and household managers had given women an understanding of how to improve the country’s education, sanitation, workers rights, and family nourishing. These situations gave women a knowledge that no man could posses. Although it took one hundred forty four years after the founding of our nation for women to vote, national suffrage in 1920 was a great achievement. Extending voting rights to women was a giant step forward in this country’s distinguished history.