Women in Reform Movements

During the 19th century women organized and participated in a great variety of reform movements to improve education, to initiate prison reform, to ban alcoholic drinks, and to free the slaves in the pre-Civil War.
At a time when it was not considered respectable for women to speak before mixed audiences of men and women. Many women supported the temperance movement in the belief that drunken husbands pulled their families into poverty. In 1872 the Prohibition party became the first national political party to recognize the right of suffrage for women in its platform.
Women were also active in movements for agrarian and labor reforms and for birth control such as Margaret Robins led the National Women's Trade Union League in the early 1900s.

Women have been growing because if we all join and participate we can make our voice heard, that our views and thoughts are taken into account, and thanks to the events that have happened and in which we participated we could make us notice.