Evolution of Women Rights
Evolution of Women’s Equality in United States
26.11.2013
Hanna Wojtyniak
History & Structure of the American Government
Additional paper for missing Thursday classes
Nowadays, it’s impossible not to hear about unhappy, striking women. Unhappy with their lack of rights and how they are treated by men. Now we faced the times in which women are striving to independence. I think it’s worth observing how they rights developed throughout the history. Because what we, women, have now was achieved by the really hard work and sacrifice made by others and I think we do not really appreciate it. The whole history of women’s right started exactly in 1848 thank to Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Moll. These two women made the first women rights convention organized by women in Western World. That’s where the name came from: Seneca Falls Convention. Especially Elizabeth Stanton really deserved not to be forgotten because of her Declaration of Sentiments - the very first document, signed by 68 women and 32 men that were attending the first convention. It was a beginning of the storm that women wanted to cause. In the 1850 the members of the Anti-Slavery Society created a national convention for the formal consideration of women’s rights. For the next ten years (except 1857) delegates met annually at the Women’s Right Convention. Unfortunately the hard times came and for the sake of Civil War in 1861 the National Women’s Right Convention brought to an end. This is the moment to introduce Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony. Lucy was an American orator and suffragist. Born and raised in Massachusetts she was the first women to earn the college degree at Oberlin College (which was the first one to let study women as well as men. It is also the place that promised to educate African-American men and women). She gave a lot of speeches at Oberlin College. Lucy deeply believed that the Bible is ‘on the women’s side’ and that a woman
26.11.2013
Hanna Wojtyniak
History & Structure of the American Government
Additional paper for missing Thursday classes
Nowadays, it’s impossible not to hear about unhappy, striking women. Unhappy with their lack of rights and how they are treated by men. Now we faced the times in which women are striving to independence. I think it’s worth observing how they rights developed throughout the history. Because what we, women, have now was achieved by the really hard work and sacrifice made by others and I think we do not really appreciate it. The whole history of women’s right started exactly in 1848 thank to Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Moll. These two women made the first women rights convention organized by women in Western World. That’s where the name came from: Seneca Falls Convention. Especially Elizabeth Stanton really deserved not to be forgotten because of her Declaration of Sentiments - the very first document, signed by 68 women and 32 men that were attending the first convention. It was a beginning of the storm that women wanted to cause. In the 1850 the members of the Anti-Slavery Society created a national convention for the formal consideration of women’s rights. For the next ten years (except 1857) delegates met annually at the Women’s Right Convention. Unfortunately the hard times came and for the sake of Civil War in 1861 the National Women’s Right Convention brought to an end. This is the moment to introduce Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony. Lucy was an American orator and suffragist. Born and raised in Massachusetts she was the first women to earn the college degree at Oberlin College (which was the first one to let study women as well as men. It is also the place that promised to educate African-American men and women). She gave a lot of speeches at Oberlin College. Lucy deeply believed that the Bible is ‘on the women’s side’ and that a woman