Why Is It Important To Have Women's Rights In The 1800s

Did women always have the same rights as we do now? It is the 1800s and the women’s role is to get married, have kids, and depend on a man. I’m not able to get a job because owners shut me down due to my gender. I am not allowed to vote. My husband wants me to cook, clean, and whatever else needs to get done around the house. With all the housework I don’t have time to do anything, like get an education. It’s the 1800s and I want to be treated equally. Women’s rights are important because everyone should be treated equally, no matter what gender. I should be able to get an education, a job, and vote. I will not stand to be treated with such little respect. I’m standing up for my right to vote. Therefore, my act of civil disobedience is to organize a group to sit in front of voting locations, so males can not get in to vote.
Both women and like minded men went down to Seneca Falls, New York to “discuss the problem of women’s rights” which cause the movement to start gaining attention but once the civil war started it died down again. It is 1869, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony created the National Woman Suffrage Association, NWSA for short. It was created because they believed that this was their chance to push lawmakers for truly universal suffrage. They believed in this so strongly that they refused to support the 15th Amendment which prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that’s citizen’s “race, color or previous condition of servitude”. They even allied with racist Southerners who argued that white women’s votes could be used to neutralize those cast by