Declaration Of Sentiments And Resolutions Summary

In “the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Seneca Falls Conference” society exemplifies a blind eye on the cultural, political, religious, and economic disparities between genders. Elizabeth Cady Stanton speaks to the audience of men, the government, and the patriarchal society who feel they are free and equal regardless of others around them not having the same luxury. Up to the present time in “the history of mankind,” there has been a pattern of a patriarchal society where man had “absolute tyranny over her.” Stanton exercises in her writing that there was not much notion of an “inalienable right” granted to women. Women were lesser. Women were meant to be of help to man and to be used by man. This should be bothersome. The notion of tyranny of men over women is very clear here. Women needed men since they could not support themselves since they did …show more content…
Without men, women were “civilly death.” Men were needed for women to be able to support themselves financially. Men had legal rights over all of his wife’s property including “wages she earns.” It was not just earnings that were not granted to be kept by women; it was also from financial opportunities as well. The job market exemplified a large gender bias as men had control of “all the profitable employments.” Even if women could have had an opportunity for a profitable position, there was also an educational barrier to overcome since the “colleges were closed against her.” There was a very large discrepancy between genders from an economic standard. Women had limited educational opportunities, which minimized possible hopes of profitable job opportunities, which made it hard to support oneself, even if a man not having control of ones wages was an option. It was a cruel and patriarchal norm that men, the government, and the society did not seem to shed any light