What Is The Women's Rights Movement?

During the eighteen hundreds there was a large revolution within the United States of America. This revolution was caused by the unfair rights between men and women, particularly the lack of rights. During these times not everyone was equal and therefore granted rights instead only males had certain rights. Women and other racial groups were deprived of these rights and often laws were set in place to prohibit them from being able to perform certain tasks or have an equal education. Then a group of people began to spread their influence and create a movement pushing for equal rights for women. This movement was revolutionary in that it went against the common thoughts of the people. The thought being that women are meant to stay at home and cook as well as take care of the children. But with this movement many people began to realize that women are just people and that any human deserves equality and …show more content…
The Women's Rights movement showed opposition to these people in several different ways such as organizing conventions for women's rights movements. They often wrote about the unfairness of the laws against women. Often they opposed in subtle ways such as changing the way they dressed to show their independence as well responding to letters from people who shared different views and were aggressive towards these movements. For example in the excerpt from "Comments on Mr. Mann's First Lecture" by Ernestine L. Rose pushes that if men and women were almost entirely the same and function the same with only a few defining features then what makes them unfit to operate the same as men and perform the same tasks and use the same rights. One of the main point they used in their movement is that if a woman is able to function and think in the same manner as men and exercise the same abilities then what makes men superior after