How Did Women's Rights Change Over The Last Century

Women’s Rights Over the Last Century Throughout history, cultures have typically assigned different roles to men and women. Women through the lens of history have been seen as inferior to the male authority. Women for many centuries have fought for legal equality, a voice, the right to own property, to work outside of the home, and common social equality. Women went from being the property of their husbands, and/or their fathers to being able to own their own property and manage their own financial businesses. Woman today in the twenty century are able to drive, own property, work outside the home, vote for president, work in male dominated jobs, have laws that protect their rights, and most importantly have a voice. This was not always the reality for women in nineteenth century. The living legacy of what women fought for in the past century has surpassed their expectations. Women’s rights movement has changed tremendously in the last century and has flourished into something bigger. In this century we have had a female candidate to run for president. The objective of this paper is to lay out the foundation of how women’s rights has changed over the last century. It all began on July 13, 1848, at a tea gathering in upstate New …show more content…
The media of the time was in frenzy. Women demanding to vote was a scandalous and an outlandish matter. The Declaration of Sentiments was often published and ridiculed in the public eye. The movement was already being attacked. Although, many were opposed to giving women their right’s. The Women’s Rights movement continue to move forward as planned. The movement optimistically expanded, in hope to make conventions in all parts of the country. So, they continued with their conventions until the start of the Civil War. Elizabeth Cade Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Sojourner Truth, were the women among the group that traveled the country lecturing the women on what they could