Module 7, Women's Suffrage Movement

 American women had the highest female literacy rate in the world. In the 1820s and for decades to come

 married women could not own property, make contracts, bring suits, or sit on juries. Elizabeth Cady

 Stanton and others organized the first women's rights convention in history in Seneca Falls, New York, in

 1848. Women have had to overcome the oldest form of exploitations and subordination. In the fight for

 women's suffrage, most of the earliest activists found their way to the cause through the abolition

 movement  of the 1830s. In 1840, when Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the world Anti-

Slavery Convention in London, they were forced into the gallery along with all the women who attended. 

Their indignation led them eight years later, to organize the first U.S. women's rights convention at

 Seneca, Falls, NY. In the early years of the women's rights movement, the agenda included much more

 than just the right to vote. Their broad goals included equal access to education and employment,

 equality within marriage, and a married woman's right to her own property and wages. Also, in 1869,

 Stanton and Anthony founded the female-only national women suffrage association, which stood in

 opposition to form the National American Women's Suffrage Association. In 1920, the United States

 became the 27th country to give women the vote, after countries such as Denmark, Mexico, New

 Zealand and Russia. In fact most of these countries adopted women's suffrage during or immediately

 after world war 1. Stanton and Anthony founded the female-only National suffrage association which

 stood in opposition to stone and Blackwell's American women. 

Women fighting for equality

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