Women’s Rights Movement

Traditional View of Women

 Wifehood and motherhood were regarded as women's most significant professions.

Cult of Domesticity A belief that limits women to house work and the responsibility to take care of their children and husband.

Republican Motherhood Holds the ideology that women had to be educated in order to raise their children with good values and morals, who will then further the republican ideal. Women were entrusted with the education of their children.

Limitations on Women’s options in the earth 1900th century After marriage women limited their activities to their family and home. About 1 in 10 single white women worked outside the home, earning less money for doing the same job as men. Any profits or anything that belong to a single woman automatically became her husband’s.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton She was the leading figure of the women’s right movement, also she an abolitionist, and advocated in favor of temperance. Married abolitionist Henry Stanton. She went to an Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 with her husband. After the women delegates were denied seats at that convention, Stanton became convinced that women should hold a convention demanding their own rights

Elizabeth Cady Stanton She drafted the Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments. She organized the Seneca Falls Convention along with the help of; Lucretia Mott, Jane Hunt, Martha Coffin Wright, and Mary Ann M'Clintock.

Lucretia Mott Dedicated her life to the quality of humans. With Mary Ann M’Clintock and nearly 30 other female abolitionists, organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention.

Susan B. Anthony She is known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local women’s rights organizations. Meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton was probably the beginning of her interest in women’s rights. Founded the American Equal Rights Association with Stanton.

Susan B. Anthony By 1869 Stanton, Anthony and others formed the National Woman Suffrage Association and focused their efforts on a federal woman’s suffrage amendment. Voted in the 1872 presidential elections with her sisters. ( They were arrested for this and found guilty)

Susan B. Anthony From 1881 to 1885, Anthony joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage in writing the History of Woman Suffrage. As a final tribute to Susan B. Anthony, the Nineteenth Amendment was named the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. It was ratified in 1920.

Seneca Falls Convention On July 1848 over 300 men and women met in Seneca Falls, New York for what became known as the nation’s first women’s right convention. Discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman. The Declaration of sentiments was founded.

Declaration of Sentiments Also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. Signed by 68 women and 32 men, 100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention. The primary author was Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Declaration of Sentiments Based on the United States Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Sentiments, offered for the acceptance of the Convention. Demanded that the rights of women as right-bearing individuals be acknowledged and respected.

Women in the workforce Replaced the man that went to war. A genuinely liberating experience" that made them feel useful as citizens but that also gave them the freedom and the wages only men had enjoyed so far. Approximately 1,600,000 women joined the workforce between 1914 and 1918.

The 19 th Amendment  Guarantees American women the right to vote.  First introduced to congress in  It was ratified in 1920.