In the 1700's women were their father or husband propety and in the 1800's 20 percent of 1 percent people who went to college were women (Out of many AP Edition). In 1900-1917 women to they advancing a little bit farther, by questioning the right they had or that they were given.
This awaking of women Put lights on issues like birth control and women's voting rights. This awaking also put women omn the frontlines of reform campaings, for example the settlement house movement.