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The French revolution
Women’s Rights
French Revolution, 1789-1799
Your text, Chapter 23, and page 690
The French Revolution
What Caused the French Revolution
The French Revolution-Khan Academy
Women’s Rights
ACLU Women's Rights
Ending Violence Against Women
Core Issues-NOW
Women's Rights
What Are the Biggest Problems Women
Face Today?
Who were the dissident elites??
The three main leaders of the French
Revolution for the rebels were
● Georges-Jacques Danton - beside
being a member of the national
Assembly and the first president of the
Committee of public safety he was a
member of the city council of Paris,
minister of justice and head of the
Provisional Executive Council, member
of the Convention.
● Jean-Paul Marat, he was and indirect
leader in the rebellion, I mean people
got motivated from his article ‘L’ami du
peuple, which he ranted his disgust on
the people in power
● Maximilien Robespierre. He was the
leader of the Third estate went to the
meeting the king called between the
estates, later he became a member of
the jacobins where he had the power to
execute people with the slightest
dissent to the rebellion
● Abigail Adams - was an early
advocate for women's rights,
and she was known for the
letter wrote in march 1776 to
her husband John Adams, in
Philadelphia, urging him and
other members of the
Continental Congress to
‘remember the ladies” keep the
interests of women in mind as
they prepared to fight for
American independence from
Great Britain
● Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony, together
they edited and published a
woman's newspaper, the
Revolution, and formed the
National Woman Suffrage
Association.
● Sandra Day O’Connor - the
first woman to serve on the US
Supreme Court in 1981
● Janet Reno - first female
attorney general of the United
States in march 1993
● Nancy Pelosi - first female
speaker of the house in 2007
and in reclaimed the tile one
more time in 2019 and
● Hillary Clinton - the first
woman to be nominated for
president of the United States
and the first woman to win the
popular vote in an American
presidential election
● Kamala Harris the first woman
and first woman of color vice
president of the United States
What was the mass Frustration?
Peasants were exploited by the higher class/
or estates in terms of tax money and food.
Women still face violence,
discrimination, and institutiopnal
barrieers to equal participation in
society.
What were the shared motivations??
People wanted equality and food.
Women fight for equality, including
women’s suffrage (right to vote) and
progression in equal opportunity in
education, workplace, and
participation in society
Any state crisis/crises?
France was in debt because of funding the
The patriarchal system - in the US, in
American Revolution. King Louis at the time
the realm of politics. women still face
attempted to reform the system under various challenges regardless of their
finance ministers but eventually they failed
and declared bankruptcy.
experience, education or abilities, the
patriarchal nature of U.S. society
carries the perception that women
Hailstorms ruined farmer’s harvest therefore
are less qualified and less competent
food prices raised led to hunger which
than men. And that leads people with
brought hunger the people of France
the incentive to think that a strong
(specifically peasants)
and intelligent woman represents a
problem rather than an integral part
of it. Therefore, the US is behind the
rest of the world when it comes to
electing a woman as president
Any major events and outcomes??
● The peasants leaving the estate general
on June 17th, 1789 establishing the
National assembly - Louis 16 sent
troops to attempt to end the rebellion
by making food shortages but the
revolutionary thought this was
provocation so they responded by
seizing the Bastille Prison on July 14
the same year.
● August 4, the National Assembly
wrote a new constitution that
abolished feudal rights, privileges for
nobles, unequal taxation,
● August 26th, they proclaimed the
Declaration of Rights of man and
citizens. Everyone had the right to
liberty, property and security
● Abigail Adams - was an early
advocate for women's rights,
and she was known for the
letter wrote in march 1776 to
her husband John Adams, in
Philadelphia, urging him and
other members of the
Continental Congress to
‘remember the ladies” keep the
interests of women in mind as
they prepared to fight for
American independence from
Great Britain
● July 19-20, 1848: In the first
woman's rights convention
organized by women, the
Seneca Falls Convention was
held in New York, with 300
attendees, including
organizers Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
Sixty-eight women and 32 men
● The women’s march , Oct 1789, a large
group of armed peasant women
stormed the palace and demanded the
king Louis and Marie Antoinette move
from Versailles to Paris because a
rumor about Marie Antoinette was
hoarding grain inside the palace. - and
they moved because they were scared
of the power of a crowd
(including Frederick Douglass)
sign the Declaration of
Sentiments, which sparked
decades of activism, eventually
leading to the passage of the
19th Amendment granting
women the right to vote.
○ Aug. 18, 1920:
Ratification of the 19th
Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution is
completed, declaring
“the right of citizens of
the United States to
vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the
United States or by any
State on account of sex.”
It is nicknamed “The
Susan B. Anthony
Amendment” in honor
of her work on behalf of
women’s suffrage
● May 9, 1960: The Food and
Drug Administration (FDA)
approves the first
commercially produced birth
control pill in the world,
allowing women to control
when and if they have children.
Margaret Sanger initially
commissioned “the pill” with
funding from heiress
Katherine McCormick.
● June 10, 1963: President John
F. Kennedy signs into law the
Equal Pay Act, prohibiting
sex-based wage discrimination
between men and women
performing the same job in the
same workplace.
○ July 2, 1964: President
Lyndon B. Johnson,
signs the Civil Rights
Act into law; Title VII
bans employment
discrimination based on
race, religion, national
origin or sex.
● March 12, 1993: Nominated
by President Bill Clinton, Janet
Reno is sworn in as the first
female attorney general of the
United States.
○ Sept. 13, 1994: Clinton
signs the Violence
Against Women Act as
part of the Violent
Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act,
providing funding for
programs that help
victims of domestic
violence, rape, sexual
assault, stalking and
other gender-related
violence.
● Jan. 4, 2007: U.S. Rep. Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) becomes the
first female speaker of the
House. In 2019, she reclaims
the title, becoming the first
lawmaker to hold the office
two times in more than 50
years.
● Hillary Clinton became the
first woman to be nominated
for president of the United
States when she won the
Democratic Party nomination
in 2016. She was the first
woman to win the popular vote
in an American presidential
election; however, she failed to
win the Electoral College.
● January 20, 2021: Kamala
Harris is sworn in as the first
woman and first woman of
color vice president of the
United States. "While I may be
the first woman in this office, I
will not be the last," Harris said
after getting elected in
November.
These event from far away to today
show that despite all the challenges,
there is the end of the tunnel for a
future where women have the same
equality as men in EVERY aspect of
life and society
Similarities and Differences (SUMMARY)
The biggest similarity between the French revolution and the Women’s rights movement
is that both fight for equality. Another symbol we can see is the power of the crowd,
where in the French Revolution, women grouped up to storm the palace of king Louis
and Marie Atoinette. The same thing happens for women’s rights, there are protests but
not just women, men and others also participate in the protests. During the French
Revolution, the peasants fought for an improved standard of living and education and
wanted to get rid of feudalism and for the womens’s rights The women also have been
fighting to get rid of discrimination, lack of opportunity in education and society, unequal
pay, violence, and reproductive rights and justice.
Because they have such a similar end goal so in terms of the big picture, I don't think
there is any big difference between the two, like the process is obviously different but
otherwise, there's not much . In my opinion only, the burst of rebellion for the French
revolution, is like an explosion of a balloon, where the peasants were being taken
advantage of for a long time, day to day, to the point that they couldn’t take it anymore
and they exploded- Women’s right is more less the same, it’s more like a campfire
burning where it’ll keep burning (women keep fighting for equality) until it runs out of fuel
(meaning there is change)