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"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
-Charlotte Whitton
All throughout history women have been underscored and forgotten. Women played parts as soldiers, nurses, abolitionists, workers, and their known roles as mothers, wives and daughters in the Civil War. They worked jobs that they were thought unable to do. They fought bravely in numbers still unknown. Women also saved countless lives in hospitals on the battle field. All of them did their part to fight for equality.
Women became tired of their place as the "weaker" sex. They proved that they could be just as strong as any man. The many (exact number still unknown) women who fought as soldiers in disguise won many battles and were given many honors, but the minute they were discovered as women every thing was taken from them. Some of the few women that got through the war undiscovered kept their disguise as men - this is most likely for the freedoms they could have had as men.
The women that worked as nurses were doing jobs that no man ever thought they could, but they proved themselves to be just as good as their male counter parts. Most believe that the nurses have always been remembered in history; the women were actually put down for their work. The nurses witnessed all the horror of battle and saved many lives. They were, as many women have been in the past, pushed back to their original role when the war was over.
Some women used their understood place as "weak" or "incapable" to gain information from the opposing side. These women are the lest mentioned in today's text books. They used everything that was put in place to make women weak to make themselves stronger. They're stories of bravery have been forgotten even today.
This web page has been created to bring these women back into common history. Their stories are too courageous to be forgotten. Many people believe that the fight for equality between men and women is in the past, but it is still going on today. These stories are proof that women are just as good as men.
