Women's Rights In The United States

Throughout most of history, women had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men did. Women mostly had jobs as a seamstress or kept boarding houses, some of the women had the same jobs as men. For an example, according to “Women’s History in America” in 1890 a slim amount of the women were doctors, but 95% of doctors were men in the United States. Another example of what women were not allowed to do is vote, married women were not allowed to obtain property rights, if a couple happen to get a divorce woman had no parental rights, and women had to obey laws even though they had no say in the law in the first place. This is just a few of the many unequal things that happened to women. It is a turning point in women’s history
As reported by “History of the Women’s Rights” the main people in the establishment were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a mother of four and the Quaker abolitionist, Lucretia Mott. Around one hundred people attended the convention and about two-thirds of those people were women. The meeting at Seneca Falls was somewhat successful, it included women's rights in family responsibilities, a lack of educational and economic responsibilities, and the absence of a voice in a political debate. In 1850 Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, a teacher in Massachusetts, met and made an alliance of a bunch of different women’s rights activists. For most of the 1850s they fought against the denial of basic economic freedoms to women. Anthony and Stanton attempted to include women in the 14th and 15th Amendments. These girls attempted many different things and still came out to be
In that group, they tried to change the federal law and oppose the 15th Amendment, because it excluded women. The NWSA was based in New York, but had some other participants. Lucy Stone, a Massachusetts anti-slavery advocate and a prominent lobbyist for women’s rights, firmed the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). According to “Living the Legacy: The Women’s Rights” the AWSA and the NWSA disagreed with each other, reason being that they were being racially diverse and organized with the aim to continue a national reform effort at the state level. When the 1880’s hit, the AWSA was better funded and had more people to participate in their group, but they only had a regional reach. On the other hand, the NWSA relied on its statewide, but it also contained some people around the nation. Neither of these two groups reached broad support of women, nor obtain men’s voters to agree with their points. Both groups were not making very much progress. According to “History of the Women’s Right Movement” in 1872 Anthony went to the polls in New York to cast a ballot in the presidential election. When someone mention women were not allowed to vote she reminded people of her citizenship stated from the 14th amendment. This was when she was arrested, tried, convicted, and fined $100. Refusing to pay this fine so she ended up going to court in 1875.