Womens Rights
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." This was Margaret Mead's conclusion after observing different cultures around the world. Over the past 150 years many things have changed for women and their rights. The changes include social and legal, government, employment education, and in religion. Women made all these changes happen. Women of the past seven generations have come together to create these changes in various ways such as, meeting, petitions, lobbying, public speaking, and non violent resistance. Women have worked together to create a better world for themselves, and they have succeeded hugely. To many people, the women's rights movement started on July 13th 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was invited to a social gathering, where she voiced her discontent about how women were treated. She stated that America fought a revolution against Britain 70 years earlier for freedom; however women were not recipients of that freedom. This group was ready to change the way that society looked at women. A couple days after the gathering the women let the Seneca County Courier know that there was going to be a convention where social,
civil and religious rights of women were going to be discussed. The convention was set to take place in Seneca Falls on July 19th in 1848. Before this convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a few other women drafted a Declaration of Sentiments. Cady Stanton used the Declaration of Independence as the framework for the Sentiments. In the declaration she carefully pinpointed where women were treated unjustly. The sentiments included that, women were legally dead in the eyes of the law. Women could not vote or enter professions such as law or medicine. Cady Stanton went on to write, that women feel oppressed, and deprived of their most sacred rights. She insisted that women have their rights and privileges which belong to the rest of the citizens in the United States. Cady Stanton is often compared to Fredrick Douglass. Fredrick Douglass was an African American abolitionist and a former slave who spoke out against slavery and freedom. In the 1800's both women and slaves were looked down upon and for Cady Stanton and Douglass to so what they did is truly remarkable. Cady Stanton succeeded in getting her points across. Many more women joined the women's rights movement. Cady Stanton's main purpose was to get more rights for women, it was an ongoing struggle but she did accomplish what her goal was. A second wave of women's rights activist started up in the 1960's but they weren't as effective as Cady Stanton. In the world of work, large numbers of women have entered professions that many though
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