Women's Rights In The 1800s

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Women have fought for hundreds of years to be considered just as equal as men. They are always thought of as inferior to men and that they can not do as much as men can. Women are working at equality in the workforce, holding protests for equality, and proving their ability to do just as much as the men considering they choose to bare children.
The woman suffrage movement actually began in 1848, when the first women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. For the next 50 years, woman suffrage supporters worked to educate the public about the validity of woman suffrage. Back in the 1800s women were thought of as a form of slavery, they were not allowed to go as they please or wear what they wanted to. Daily life for women in
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Having the protests opened the eyes of many citizens that were not aware of the events happening in everyday life. During the 1880s, the two wings of the women’s rights movement struggled to maintain momentum. The AWSA was better funded and the larger of the two groups, but it had only a regional reach (“Women’s Movement”). In 1881 the women who owned their own property, gained the right to vote. Colorado was the first state to adopt an amendment granting women the right to vote (Women’s Rights Movement). Women's Right to Vote passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote (Women's Right Movement). After this amendment was passed women around the world pushed even harder to pass the same amendment where they live (Women’s Rights Movement). On election day in 1920 millions of American women exercised their right to vote. French women vote for the first time on April 29, 1945 after decades of campaigning and protests, the women's suffrage movement in the United States finally paid off (Women’s Rights). . During the mass march in Colorado there was an estimation of 200,000 people, men and women (Feldman). On record there were more than 600 events across the world all for women’s rights movement (Feldman). Having these events for women helped government officials realize the unfair acts that have been happening throughout the years. The first world wide announcement on women’s rights was in 1963 from the publication of Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique”, she spoke about the problem that laid buried and unspoken in the minds of women across the globe (“Women’s Movement”). After the publication of her article it sparked a fire in tons of men and women across the