The Women’s Rights Movement: Women’s Suffrage
Jamuel Breeze
Old Dominion University

Abstract Women’s history is still being reclaimed. Women played critical roles in the twentieth-century American life. Women were workers, artists, parents, and women offered in many forms energies, insights, and strengths in periods of crisis and prosperity. Our forefathers wrote that all men were created equal, but growing up as a females has never been easy. When children are young there are not many differences between boys and girls, but as life continues things change. When young girls grow to become women they face discrimination, from the onset, as opposed to their male counterparts. This discrimination comes from society, and can even come from within their household from parents, siblings, and other family members. Women were viewed as only suitable for domestic works and were not given opportunities for advancement nor knowledge of other skills and trades. This essay will cover the route that women took in order to become equal; The Women’s Rights Movement, but more specifically focus on Women’s Suffrage.

The Women’s Rights Movement Women’s rights movements are primarily concerned with making the political, social, and economic status of women equal to that of men while establishing legislative safeguards against discrimination on the basis of sex. The Women’s Right Movement began in 1848 with the first women’s rights convention being held in Seneca Falls, New York. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the convention. “Of the many changes in women’s lives in the twentieth century, very few were as dramatic of significant as the expansion of women’s opportunities for work (May, 2009). Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, MA in 1820. She was the daughter of a Quaker abolitionist. She taught in rural New York for seventeen