How were women treated for wanting rights back then?

Question

And did they have any male supporters?

Did they suffer greatly?

Or did they have strikes during the day and when afternoon came rushed home to make supper? I mean did women suffer anything for wanting rights? Were they ever sent to jail and so on?

Answer 1

When was "back then"?

*A genius you ain't.  "Back then" is meaningless.

Answer 2

Women always had rights minus voting and career rights. Are you kidding me? In the 1903 my great grandfather was divorced by a woman cus she didn't want kids. This was her divorcing him! So he gets remarried, has my grandma in the 20s, she has my mom in the 50s, and mom has me in 93.

Sigh, you all don't know jack ****.

Women always dis-obeyed their husbands, so this whole forced child bearing is bullshit.

Answer 3

between 1900 and  1920 some suffragettes were put in jail for  things that might make you laugh out loud, like using her maiden name, but LIVING with a man openly- her husband.

some men supported thee suffragettes - often their husbands.

but not all husbands. Generally, the suffragettes were denounced from the pulpit.

Answer 4

mostly like how g*y people are treated by religious people today !!!

some proberly had male suppoters ... but not much.

i doubt they suffered much but i guess it depends what they did to want it.  

Answer 5

Back when?  Most women were simply ignored, as they didn't have voices, but they became progressively louder, and eventually someone discovered they existed.  Well done!

Answer 6

Ill-favoured.

There are always those in society who are 'ill-favoured', and they will be discriminated against for their ideas.

I imagine they felt quite isolated, among other things.

Answer 7

Two of my heroes are Elizabeth Katie Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.  I have read many of their writings and things that were written about them and the women who were part of the women's movement in America of the 1840s and on.  

Yes, they suffered and were opposed by many.  But the majority of people supported them - men as well as women.  Elizabeth Katie Stanton didn't just fight for women's rights - she fought for racial equality as well.  Most women in the movement actually saw it as human rights more than women's rights they were fighting for.

Interestingly enough, one of the rights they were fighting for was the right for women to refuse to abort their children when the husbands demanded it.

My, how times have changed.

Answer 8

They were harassed in every way, and accused of being unnatural, and wanting to be men. They did have a small number of male supporters.

Answer 9

Most people found them annoying, and congressman probably got tired of them blocking entrances.

A few men, mostly men who just couldn't put up with the constant complaining. A few men who actually cared about equal rights.

It wasn't really like the black civil rights movement.