1. Key feminist goals, 19th century
Right to vote
Abolition of “coverture”
Legal independence
Right to equal education
Right to protection against violence within and beyond marriage
Right to not have sex

2. “This hour belongs to the Negro.”
Frederick Douglas
“Do you believe the African race is composed entirely of males?”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

3. “Women first and Negro last; that is my program.”
George Francis Train

4. 1869
National Woman Suffrage Association; Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; strategy: work outside the Republican party
American Women Suffrage Association; Lucy Stone; strategy: work within the Republican party

5. 1900:
5,319,000 women worked for wages
932,000 in clothing or textile mills
2 million women worked as domestic servants

6. Women’s suffrage map

7. “It is a risk, a danger to a country like ours to send 1,000,000 men out of the country who are loyal and not replace those men by the loyal values of the women they have left at home.”
Carrie Chapman Catt

8. UN Resolutions for Women’s Rights as of 1995
193 countries in the world
139 countries ratified Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
127 ratified Equal Pay for Equal Value
126 ratified Equality in Employment
105 ratified Equal Political Rights
44 ratified Equal Marriage Rights
Women...A World Survey, 1995, World Priorities, by Ruth Leger Sivard

9. Female Education as a Percent of Male Education, 1995
Literacy Rate
Elementary
Secondary
Higher Education
Average
Latin America 97 95
106 89
Middle East 75 86 71 64 74
South Asia 57 73 58 45
Far East 84 90 85 68 82
Oceania 81 47
Africa 69 78 54
Women...A World Survey, 1995, World Priorities, by Ruth Leger Sivard