Mary Wollstonecraft 19th Amendment Essay

In the early days, women didn’t shared the same rights as men because women were seen as maintaining their position at homes and leaving men to politics just because they were seen as delicate compared to men (which in other words showed women unequal to men). However, it was just a matter of time when women realized that they’re not receiving their basic rights in United States. This lead women to fight against inequality but, it wasn’t easy at all because they had to face long struggle known as women’s suffrage movement that give the women right to vote. That’s why the 19th amendment was the results of decades of efforts that women put in order to get granted officially with the right to vote in the form of an amendment to the constitution.
It was her writings in the 18th century that inspired so many women to began pushing for their rights. Especially one of the most famous book known as “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” that talked about the inequality between men and women along with stating that women's ahs the right to live life with liberty and happiness. Not only that, she also insisted that women should be allowed to get education, to follow their own choice professional careers that include entering into a business if they want to along with having the right to vote (Powell, April 1, 1996). Since, she herself was the women who not only dared to choose a career as professional writer that no other women ever did before but also choose to develop her work writing about serious issues without a sponsor. Therefore, she communicated with women about the importance of education as she believed that education is the salvation of women and insisted that every women should be taught all of the serious subjects in order to get understanding about things around them. Not only that, she stood up against individuals like Jean-Jacques Rousseau because he didn’t wanted women to move forward as he believed that women's only role is to be relative and useful for men (Powell,
So, the purpose of Seneca Falls Convention was to bring the issue of woman suffrage into a national issue in order to show how woman were treated unequally. The Seneca Falls Convention was was organized by the Stanton and her friend Lucretia Mott in 1948, where they brought and introduced the declaration of Rights and Sentiments that was wrote based on the declaration of Independence. Which declared “Equality for women and, more specifically, that women should have the right to vote. Though the idea was mocked by many at first, women’s conference continued to grow and other joined the cause, such as activist Susan B. Anthony” (Cote). However, the movement were put on hold due to the civil war since everyone’s attention turned to the division of country. But in the meantime, Stanton and Anthony formed a National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 and campaigned against any amendment that denied the woman’s right to vote in order to make women grant the right to vote through national amendment of the United States constitution. Not only that, another woman suffrage group was formed in the