Why The Challenges Faced By The Declaration Of Sentiments And Resolutions

The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, a document which emerged from the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 in the US, was the first ever women’s rights convention, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This convention spanning two days, July 19 and 20 was the driving force for women in the US to get their voices heard for their inequality and encouraged them to fight for their rights. The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions has goals and concerns that have been met with in the US, if not the whole world and some of them have not been met with yet. Women are still facing challenges, even if these challenges be of the least extent; it does not matter. Some of the Sentiments that I would like to enlighten are:
‘He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.’ – Women were not allowed to vote in the US or any other part of the world. In 1848, at the convention when this concern was raised, it was then that the women in the US had to fight for their right to vote again after it had been taken away many years before 1848, which then took more than
This concern, as far as I know, has been met with because I do not feel that people nowadays are as ignorant as the times that have passed, as to deprive women of their most basic rights. However, if there are countries in the world that STILL follow this concept, as some cultures in countries had the extremely ignorant practice of burying the child alive if it was a girl, then it is a very depressing thought.
‘He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.’ – The legal rights of a married woman were absorbed into those of her husband, because of the belief that husband and wife is one person in law. I believe this concern has been met with the women in the US, but not