FEMINIST MOVEMENTS …show more content…
However, to much dismay, women found their roles in these organizations quite restrictive due to their prevention from voting and publically speaking at meetings. Some women accepted their position in society, but for many women the fight for equality had just begun. In 1848 the first organized gathering for the purpose of acquiring legal rights for women, took place in Seneca Falls, NY; birthing the women rights movement. The road to obtaining the right to vote was a rigorous journey that required a variety of strategies. Along the way women gained rights such as the right to property, the right to divorce, and finally in 1920 the 19th amendment passed giving women the right to