I am a twenty-one-year-old female that attends college and goes to work and if an incident were to happen, I would hope that I would be compensated, just as anyone deserves to have labor laws that are placed for their security and livelihood. Labor laws are not a luxury, they are a necessity and a basic human right as all people deserve to work in safe conditions that have their wellbeing in mind. The most devastating part about the suffrage of people is that these incidents are not foreign to those around the world, specifically third world countries. Witnessing the videos about the lives of those who work in the factories that are harmed due to the negligence choices of those in charge is upsetting because it brings up the point that the lives of these workers are quite literally in the palms of those who are in charge- those who seem to not value their lives either through negligence or sheer evil. The people that are at the highest risk are though who are either in poverty or do not have the means to find a job that will protect them. This is why labor laws need to be set in to place, as a means to end the suffrage of people.  

Labor rights and the equal rights amendment are intertwined as they both strive to ensure equal opportunities and rights for all individuals. Concerning labor rights, the state must safeguard labor, encourage full employment, and provide equal opportunities regardless of race, gender, or ethnicity. The equal rights amendment was created to eliminate legal distinctions based on gender once women obtained the right to vote. This guaranteed women equal access to employment, education, and all other opportunities as citizens and ensured their freedom in public spaces. Labor rights also relate to gender justice due to the unfair treatment and discrimination women face in the workplace and their communities. Women are subjected to violence, abuse, and unequal treatment at home, work, and in their wider communities, denying them the chance to learn, earn money, and lead. Women have fewer resources, less power, and less influence compared to men and experience further inequality due to their ethnicity, class, age, as well as religious and other fundamentalism. While some progress has been made in some areas, such as women being able to secure jobs previously reserved for men and receiving equal pay for some but not all jobs, little change can be seen in today’s society concerning suffrage, labor rights, and the Equal Rights Amendment.

In the article “Virginia Just Became the 38th State to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Here’s What to Know About the History of the ERA” By Tara Law in TIME Magazine Online at time.com First Published August 23, 2019; Updated January 15, 2020. Tara Law speaks and informs us of how Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, fulfilling the requirement that three-quarters of the states must approve it in order to add it to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment was written in 1923 by members of the National Woman’s Party and passed by Congress in 1972. It stated that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns formed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which used parades, petitions, protests and pickets to push for the right to vote. The Equal Rights Amendment of 1972 was unsuccessful due to a seven-year deadline for ratification. Martha Griffiths, a Michigan Congresswoman, worked to have sex discrimination added to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and pushed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to double down on its enforcement. Griffiths reintroduced the amendment the following year and it passed the House and Senate on Oct. 12, 1971 and March 22, 1972. However, the amendment’s passage had a major consequence: mobilizing anti-femin The Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed constitutional amendment that could have a profound effect on women’s rights. Proponents argue that it could strengthen the legal basis for combating violence against women, pay inequality and maternity leave, while opponents argue that it could lead to the striking down of laws that restrict access to abortion. Professor Tracy Thomas of The University of Akron School of Law argues that the law would prevent women’s rights from sliding back and eliminate some “wiggle room” that leaves space in the law for stereotypes to affect civil rights. She also argues that protecting women’s rights in the Constitution would have a major cultural impact. One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview This timeline accompanies the Prints and Photographs Division reference aid, Votes for Women: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage: Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress, highlighting images found in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog from the years 1776-1850 | 1851-1899 | 1900-1920 this overview states everything that has happened from the range of these years 1776-1850 | 1851-1899 | 1900-1920 such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Woman’s Bible and NAWSA distances itself from her. Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Margaret Murray Washington, Fanny Jackson Coppin, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Charlotte Forten Grimké, and Harriet Tubman form the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Maud Wood Park is the youngest delegate to the NAWSA convention. Susan B. Anthony steps down as president and chooses Carrie Chapman Catt to succeed her. Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first American woman elected to represent her state in the House of Representatives. The Nineteenth Amendment was adopted and NAWSA became the League of Women Voters.

The Equal Rights Amendment, which strives to ensure everyone has equal legal rights regardless of gender, is thoroughly explained on Law’s page. This article’s major subjects include the continuous efforts to ratify the ERA, passed by the Virginia Assembly, making it the 38th state to do so.

From its ERA’s establishment in Congress in 1923 to its final ratification by Congress in 1972, the law recognizes the significant turning points in the ERA’s history. The reading also explores the ERA’s controversies, including resistance from conservative organizations who said it would undermine conventional gender roles and family structures.

The triangle shirtwaist fire was very hard to learn about. I know we have labor laws now and didn’t know what people had to go through get us where we are today. Near closing time on Saturday afternoon, March 25, 1911, in New York City a fire broke out on the top floors of the Asch Building in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. One of the worst tragedies in American history it was know as the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. It was a disaster that took the lives of 146 young immigrant workers. This tragedy pointed out the negatives of sweatshop conditions of the industrialization era. It emphasized the worst part of its times the low wages, long hours, and unsanitary working conditions were what symbolized what sweatshops were all about. These conditions were appalling, and no person should ever be made to work in these conditions. The women had no way out due to them locking the doors so they wouldn’t take a break. That was so heart breaking to know, to imagine what those women have went through at the time break my heart. Some women wanted to make sure they didn’t burn alive and decide to jump out the window to preserve their body. The working condition for women was poor than the men back then. To tie into today era women usually are only offer a lower wage jobs instead a man.

The video talked about remarkable women who challenged the norms of their time and made significant contributions to the fight for gender and racial equality. Each of these women were pioneering figures in the women’s suffrage and civil rights movement and their advocacy for justice and equality led to the social justice movement. Susan, lucky, Alice, Ida, and Elizabeth have their own stories of how they changed and rebelled against gender-based injustice to urge a voice for women in society.

Alice Paul demanded the right to vote for women and she authored the equal rights amendment, which aims to provide equal rights for women under the law, and founded the national women’s party. Lucky Stone devoted her life to fight for women’s suffrage and gender equality. She was the first woman in the United States to keep her own name after marriage. Susan B. Anthony was a prominent abolitionist who played a significant role in the women’s suffrage movement. She co-founded the national woman suffrage association in 1869 and signed tirelessly for women’s right to vote. Anthony helped lead to the 19th amendment to the u.s constitution in 1920, which granted women the right to vote. Elizabeth advocated for women’s reproductive rights, co-authoring the controversial “Woman Bible” challenging religious texts that perpetuate gender equality. 

Ida B. Wells exposed the brutalities of lynching in the Unites States and her advocacy for civil rights and social justice inspired social justice movements today. The two ones that really interested me most were Lucky Stone and Ida B. Wells because Lucy Stone kept her own name after marriage during a controversial time in the United States. Many people were against women keeping their names because they were so used to men keeping their last names. Ida B. Wells was brave for putting her life at risk and exposing the brutalities of lynching in the United States. 

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Knowing about Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Ida B. Wells, who fought for equality and gave people like me the chance to speak out against all forms of prejudice, motivates me. Despite their diversity/differences, each one is unique in their struggle for the “women’s suffrage movement” and they established a foundation for everyone to continue speaking up against any sort of discrimination in society.

Ida B. Well caught my attention that having the courage in the fight against the lynching of black men in the community was remarkable as protesting discrimination of any form that oppresses women. She must be very courageous to have published a speech confronting and condemning white who support or ignore ignored the racial violence against black Americans. But it was unfortunate that angry mobs destroyed her office and threatened to lynch her as well.

I adore Cady Stanton, an enthusiastic activist who persisted in advocating for women’s political equality while refusing to give up on the idea of “universal suffrage,” which gave Black men the right to vote but prohibited it for women. I wish all the women who struggled against injustice and for equality were here with us to see how far we have come and how much work needs to be done.