Women's Rights In The 1800s

It all began on the year of 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York when 68 women and 32 men signed the “Declaration of Sentiments” which started the women’s rights movement. The first big step was when Susan B. Anthoy won the fight for women’s suffrage in 1919. Later on Congress allowed women to have more jobs, get a better education, and join the military, but are they treated just as equal as men? Even now in the 21st century men and women have totally different standards. Women are not treated equally as men in society because of their race, status, and race. Sojourner Truth was a well known African-American abolitionist who wanted women of all races treated equally by one another, but because of her color, she was not treated kindly at all. In the speech “Aint I A Woman” spoken by Sojourner Truth she explained how one a white man said “women need to helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches “, but she was never even offered help and she was a women. Truth was also a former slave and said she could work, eat, and handle the punishment of a white man, but was denied any of the rights that white women had even after she was freed from slavery. …show more content…
From the passage “ The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (DSR)”written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Stanton had written all of the unfair treatment of women she could think of. These include, but not limited to having no say in the law, (men) taking away her property and wages she’d worked for, the right to vote, and the ability to receive a thorough education. Stanton had stated “she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master-the law” and “an absolute tyranny over her”(quotes from DSR) meaning that he has all power over