Seneca Falls, New York was a tiny village in eighteen forty-eight. Barely large enough to accommodate the steady stream of wagons filing into it. Men and women from all over the country struggled to find seating in the meeting hall. Drawn by notices and publications announcing the advent months prior, nearly three hundred people arrived to provide witness and opinion to the topic of women’s rights. Later called the Declaration of Sentiments, signers of this resolution agreed that women should have equal legal rights to men.
From common class girls to Ladies of good stature all who attended were in agreement that something had to change. Females worked just as hard as men to establish the budding country, yet saw nothing of the fruits of their …show more content…
He said, “...A man should tend to a woman’s fancies as he would those of a child.” (Unknown). A single sentence that has put into perspective and relevance time and again the struggles of women. Even today women's interests are looked down upon and mocked. I challenge you to think of any inherently “female” thing in today’s world that is not seen as lesser somehow to that of a man’s interests. This, one feels, was how men initially viewed this Declaration. With a pat on the head and a ‘yes dear, you’re so smart’. Even those men who signed likely did so in the mindset of indulgence of a …show more content…
“Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.” (Declaration of Sentiments 1848). Seventy years would pass before the nineteenth amendment would allow for woman to take part in the elective process. Cycling back to the hysteria diagnosis, such responsibility was thought to be too much stress for the female mind. Also among common thought was the belief that women were too emotional to make clear, rational decisions. Speaking as the devil’s advocate, education is an integral part of choosing a proper elective candidate. Having been denied higher education, women at the time may not have had the proper know how to choose a candidate. On the other side of this issue, people in modern society (some candidates included!) don’t seem to know how the legislature works
From common class girls to Ladies of good stature all who attended were in agreement that something had to change. Females worked just as hard as men to establish the budding country, yet saw nothing of the fruits of their …show more content…
He said, “...A man should tend to a woman’s fancies as he would those of a child.” (Unknown). A single sentence that has put into perspective and relevance time and again the struggles of women. Even today women's interests are looked down upon and mocked. I challenge you to think of any inherently “female” thing in today’s world that is not seen as lesser somehow to that of a man’s interests. This, one feels, was how men initially viewed this Declaration. With a pat on the head and a ‘yes dear, you’re so smart’. Even those men who signed likely did so in the mindset of indulgence of a …show more content…
“Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.” (Declaration of Sentiments 1848). Seventy years would pass before the nineteenth amendment would allow for woman to take part in the elective process. Cycling back to the hysteria diagnosis, such responsibility was thought to be too much stress for the female mind. Also among common thought was the belief that women were too emotional to make clear, rational decisions. Speaking as the devil’s advocate, education is an integral part of choosing a proper elective candidate. Having been denied higher education, women at the time may not have had the proper know how to choose a candidate. On the other side of this issue, people in modern society (some candidates included!) don’t seem to know how the legislature works