Four women in historyMany women have contributed to supporting women's rights, leaving their mark on history. We will talk about four women, describing their work and the events that embody the campaign that each woman supported or led. Jeannette Rankin (active 1910 to 1968) Born on June 11, 1880, Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to the United States Congress at the age of 36. After attending college, she tried several jobs, following suit of his mother as a teacher, then a seamstress and finally a social worker. She was also a pacifist, reformer and activist for women's suffrage. After moving to Washington State, she became involved in the suffrage movement, pursuing the need to amend that state's constitution, allowing women the right to vote. Once Washington ratified in 1911, Rankin returned home to Montana, fighting for voting freedom there, taking until 1914 to establish those rights. With her background as an activist, Rankin was elected to the United States Congress in 1916 and would serve a second term in 1940. This afforded her a unique opportunity to vote against the United States' entry into the war in both World War I (in 1917) and in the Second World War (in 1941). However, she fought for the rights of working women during the war effort, creating women's rights legislation. When her term ended in 1919, Rankin served as a delegate to the International Women's Peace Conference in Switzerland. Subsequently, she was an active member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In 1939, Rankin once again ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, winning based on his anti-war stance. He voted against entering the war, even though Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, being the only protest vote. After the end of... middle of paper... she ran as a presidential candidate under the ideologically Georgist Commonwealth Land Party. Together with Nettie Rogers Shuler, in 1923, Catt published Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. She was active in anti-war causes in the 1920s and 1930s, returning to the peace movement, founding a new organization, the National Committee for the Cause and Cure of War (NCCCW). They separated the causes of war into four classes: political, economic, psychological, and social/contributory. The organization took charge of ending wars because women appeared to be morally courageous, while males were considered physically courageous. In 1940 in New York, Catt attended. with the organization of the Women's Centennial Congress, a celebration of the feminist movement in the United States. He died in New Rochelle, New York, last March 9, 1947.