History Of The Women's Movement

The beginning of the women’s movement started back in 1848 to 1920 in the United States. The first faithful gathering of women’s right in the United States was held on July 19-20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. (Women’s Rights Movement, 1848 – 1920). The women’s movement started because, women were not allowed to vote, women had no freedom of speech, married women did not have the right to own property, women who in some occasion worked didn’t earn the same amount as men, women getting an education had no means since no college or university would accept a woman student, women were robbed of their self-confident and self-respect, and women were totally dependent on men. (History of the Women’s Rights Movement). This movement, it could also