The Women's Suffrage Movement

What are Rights? Do woman and men have equal rights? It has taken a long time for women to have a right to vote, to own property and to have a voice.

(This photo is from Womenshistory.about.com)

This Political cartoon shows how the role of the man and woman are reversed. It represents how women wanted to be able to have to same roles as men, when it came to voting. Women were mocked by men in society, in Life Magazine men wrote about how women should be allowed no rights and there only purpose was the please their husbands. This was one way journalism helped spread the word of the Women's Suffrage Movement. 


Many women decided to speak up about how they wanted to have the same equal rights as men did. Women were to obey their husbands and their main purpose was the keep their husbands happy. A few important women, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were the first to fight for the right of women to vote. 

( Source from: www.rochester.edu/sba/womensfriendship.html)

July 19-20, 1848-Seneca Falls is where the two women Anthony and Stanton began to secure for the right for women to vote. Anthony and Stanton believed in fighting for the rights of women.

Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton Inspired each other to fight for change, which started a powerful friendship. These women set forth rights for women today. 

(Source from: thepoliticalcarnival.net)

Anthony & Stanton helped pave the way for women today. Abortion is a huge topic that many women feel strongly about. Having Rights of Abortion is a women's choice.

This Chapter, Slowing The Momentum For Women's Rights relates to me because I have the rights that I have today because of the women who fought for what they believed in.