The background to the speech is based on women's suffrage specifically women’s rights to vote. In the 1800’s women weren’t allowed to do many things and had few legal rights. Women soon began to realise they could do what men do: think, do business, work, provide and still be women. Therefore this empowerment movement became the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement to gain the right of equal pay, the right to vote and the right to work in fields of interest and capability.
Susan B. Anthony was the President of the National Women's Suffrage Association. She stated in her speech "Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States