Committee Description
Women’s Suffrage Movement:
Society has made it so that our mothers, sisters, daughters, and friends are viewed as a lesser part of a whole rather than the individuals that they are. Denied equal wages and the right to vote, women’s contributions to society are no less valuable, only unrecognized. This appalling mistreatment of women has reached its peak, but victims are no longer watching from the shadows. Delegates, it’s time for change, and there is no better time than right now.
Background Guide
Topics of Debate
Topic A: Equal Wages in the Workforce
Wage inequality has roots that trace back to the early years of women entering industrial and professional work. Delegates will look at how the suffrage movement silhouettes the fight for economic dignity, and how women earned less simply for being women. This committee returns to the foundation of economic inequality, and grapples with the struggle for not just wages, but the recognition of worth.
Topic B: Right to Vote
The fight for the vote was a long, uneven march: chants echoing in the rain, petitions carried from town to town, hunger strikes behind locked doors. It was not polite, nor peaceful, nor quick. But it turned silence into movement, and movement into law. Delegates revisit a moment in history where women stood up not just for a ballot, but for the right to shape the world that shaped them.
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