Elizabeth Schuyler Hamiltion
<span>In 2013, the percentage of all poor families in the United States headed by single women was "fifty-one percent".
The number in the year 2011 was 52 % which decreased one percent within two years. The reasons for such a high percentage could be lack of income or lack of opportunities or some gender biased at some pockets of society. </span>
1' The USA invasion of Afghanistan was a UN sanctioned war intended to flash out Osama Bin laden and the Taliban funded government in retaliation to the 9/11 attack. 2. It is one of the other several conflicts that the USA had been sucked into in the region such as the Israel conflict and the Gulf war.3. The other wars in the region that had sucked the USA had the intention of securing USA allies such as Israel, and protecting important oil fields such as the gulf war.
Women took part in social and political movements from 1890 through 1920. Progressive reformers pursued to improve people's life, end political corruption, and increase government intervention to protect citizens. The women's suffrage movement was part of the Progressive Era reforms.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women of all backgraounds (rich and poor, white and black, native-born Americans and immigrants) joined national organizations and participated in national women’s campaigns which succeeded in...
- obtaining the women's suffrage,
- starting the nationwide prohibition of alcohol in 1919,
- creating the Chicago’s Hull-House (a settlement house for providing services as well as education to local immigrants),
- promoting campaigns against the lynching of African Americans,
- fostering laws that protected women in the workplace.
However, there were many people who opposed women's active role in political and social matters, for example anti-suffragists who did not agree with allowing women the right to vote. Not only did religious leaders but also the press speak against women's political activism in public life.
