As with other reforms, there was a struggle to gain advances in women's educational opportunities. Search on education for documents about improving women's access to education. But every female common-school teacher in the United States finds the enjoyment of her four hundred dollars a year to be secretly embittered by the knowledge that the young college stripling in the next schoolroom is paid twice that sum for work no harder or more responsible than her own, and that, too, after the whole pathway of education has been obstructed for her, and smoothed for him. The collection is useful for tracing chronological development of the woman suffrage movement. Students can find materials about events leading to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, originally proposed as the Sixteenth Amendment in 1878.
Students can relate the collection contents to a timeline of women's rights.
Students can find examples from the collection that illustrate events on the timeline. These documents can help students comprehend content in terms of target audience and purpose for persuasive arguments. Many of the documents are quite long, so it will be a challenge to pull out information. Students will need to make good use of the tables of contents that appear in many of the documents. This collection provides a clear chronicle of the life of a political cause, that of woman suffrage.