Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Ida B. Wells. These three influential women are symbols for feminism in America. They, along with many others, fought to get America to where it is today. If not for these women, our world as we know it would not be the same. A woman wouldn’t dare run for president. Instead, they’d reluctantly serve as seamstresses or housewives, longing for a change but struggling to find their voice in society. It would be very rare for a woman to be a judge, as men would serve as the majority in the career. Even fields in science, now abundant with women, would not be available to them. However, gaining women their rights was not an easy task. Many people were content with their current lives. Not
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(Pilver, 2007) Around 260 women and 40 men were present at the assembly. (Gale, 2009) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, serving as one of many organizers of the convention, helped to give the public her insight about equal rights, and what she dreamed that the future could hold for women. (Pilver, 2007) She also created the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments”, which showed the public her goals for the convention and the movement’s time to come. The declaration proclaimed that all men and women were created equal, and that both genders had rights which should be incapable of being taken away. Stanton even listed 18 accusations of inequality in America. Some of the accusations include unequal voting rights and inequality in jobs. On the contrary, Stanton also listed 12 resolutions after which the convention would seek for, such as equal voting rights and equality in the workplace. When the convention was coming to an end, 100 people (men and women) wrote their signatures on the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. The media provided the convention with abundant attention after it came to an end. This gathering fueled the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement. (Gale,
(Pilver, 2007) Around 260 women and 40 men were present at the assembly. (Gale, 2009) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, serving as one of many organizers of the convention, helped to give the public her insight about equal rights, and what she dreamed that the future could hold for women. (Pilver, 2007) She also created the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments”, which showed the public her goals for the convention and the movement’s time to come. The declaration proclaimed that all men and women were created equal, and that both genders had rights which should be incapable of being taken away. Stanton even listed 18 accusations of inequality in America. Some of the accusations include unequal voting rights and inequality in jobs. On the contrary, Stanton also listed 12 resolutions after which the convention would seek for, such as equal voting rights and equality in the workplace. When the convention was coming to an end, 100 people (men and women) wrote their signatures on the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. The media provided the convention with abundant attention after it came to an end. This gathering fueled the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement. (Gale,