As of 2015 studies show that worldwide women are paid less than men, in most countries earning on average 60 - 75% of men’s wages - World Bank Gender Data Portal. There have always been women's rights issues but the movement did not start until 1848 when the declaration of sentiments was signed. Many conventions were held for woman's rights activists and supports to discuss the problems and develop effective solutions. The first state in the entire united states to allow women to vote was Colorado. Susan B Anthony argued for women's right by the organization and participation of protesting, her labor organization and common support of women's rights, and founded the national woman's suffrage association. Susan B Anthony organized and participated
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Anthony stood up was by creating the purse. In Anthony's time man did not have access to many jobs and once married they could not open a checking account, rent a place to live or sue anyone as these things were for a man to deal with and were his right. Any income that a woman earned, if she was lucky enough to acquire a job, was considered her husband's property. To Susan B. Anthony, her purse was not for fashion as many our today but instead a statement, “purse of her own” became a nationwide symbol of a woman's financial independence. A woman must have a purse of her own, & how can this be, so long as the wife is denied the right to her individual and joint earnings. “Reflections like these, caused me to see and really feel that there was no true freedom for a woman without the possession of all her property rights. This demand must be made by Petitions to the Legislature” - Susan B. Anthony’s Diary November 1853. The last way she stood with her labor organization and the common support of women's rights was the difference she made with a woman's right to money and possessions. “I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on …show more content…
It wasn't until a few months later that women were allowed to sell their property. There is one last way major way Susan B. Anthony took a stand being the foundation of the National woman's suffrage association. On May 15, 1869, the National woman's suffrage association was founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth C. Stanton to gather the woman who stood for Women's rights and supported to validation of the Susan Anthony amendment, better known as the 19th amendment. The man was able to join the association but it was entirely run by Woman. The association worked to secure women's enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment, however, they had a rival called the American woman suffrage association which believed that success would be more easily obtained from state to state campaigns. In 1890 the two associations through aside their rivalry realizing more can be accomplished if they combined forces and joined together to make a new much larger association called the National American woman's suffrage
Anthony stood up was by creating the purse. In Anthony's time man did not have access to many jobs and once married they could not open a checking account, rent a place to live or sue anyone as these things were for a man to deal with and were his right. Any income that a woman earned, if she was lucky enough to acquire a job, was considered her husband's property. To Susan B. Anthony, her purse was not for fashion as many our today but instead a statement, “purse of her own” became a nationwide symbol of a woman's financial independence. A woman must have a purse of her own, & how can this be, so long as the wife is denied the right to her individual and joint earnings. “Reflections like these, caused me to see and really feel that there was no true freedom for a woman without the possession of all her property rights. This demand must be made by Petitions to the Legislature” - Susan B. Anthony’s Diary November 1853. The last way she stood with her labor organization and the common support of women's rights was the difference she made with a woman's right to money and possessions. “I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on …show more content…
It wasn't until a few months later that women were allowed to sell their property. There is one last way major way Susan B. Anthony took a stand being the foundation of the National woman's suffrage association. On May 15, 1869, the National woman's suffrage association was founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth C. Stanton to gather the woman who stood for Women's rights and supported to validation of the Susan Anthony amendment, better known as the 19th amendment. The man was able to join the association but it was entirely run by Woman. The association worked to secure women's enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment, however, they had a rival called the American woman suffrage association which believed that success would be more easily obtained from state to state campaigns. In 1890 the two associations through aside their rivalry realizing more can be accomplished if they combined forces and joined together to make a new much larger association called the National American woman's suffrage