Women's Rights

Women's privileges in up to date History

Women's Rights in Modern History

Thesis Statement

“Human privileges are Womens privileges”

Introduction

The liking for women's right has an on-going event. Women have been wanting equality forever but didn't start doing anything about it until the 1770's. As American grew more and more women became cognizant of the unequal rank in Society. Eparticularly their lack of suffrage or the right to vote. In 1848 two women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, launched the first woman suffrage action in the United States, at the Seneca drop Convention. During the convention "the participants home made the affirmation of Sentiments, in which they claimed larger privileges for women, encompassing the right to vote." In 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was finally ratified. The 19th Amendment granted voting privileges to women. Four years after ratification of the nineteenth amendment, in 1924, was extended to Native Americans. Women have been demanding the right to ballot since the Seneca Falls conference in 1848.

So after 72 years it eventually happened. Like her own gazes, SusanB. Anthony had to tolerate very hostile assemblies who made fun of her when she had granted speeches on temperance, abolition, and furthermore women's rights. In 1851 Susan had met up with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and organized the NWSA in 1869. In 1872, along whit her three sisters, Susan had voted unlawfully in the presidential election. She had to proceed to test for it. In her journal she had described this know-how as " the utmost outrage annals has ever witnessed." She was fined $100 for this outrage. She wasn't going to pay a penny of the fine, and the referee didn't press the issue. Susan past away 14 years before the 19th Amendment was passed. The women's movement had altered the way that women looked at work and careers.

Discussion

Who knew the first thing that started as a handful of people in Seneca Falls convention of 1848 would snowball into a full rebellion against the cruel and unjust treatment of women? movement for women's rights owes its success to the techniques used by brilliant defense of the rights of women as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the people who alone brought the issue of Women's Rights in the kitchen in the public consciousness. Women participating in the movement of women's rights using strategies such as lobbying Congress, holding demonstrations, and appealing to every state, some ...