The Fight for Women’s Rights

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and how these were not given equally to women. Her radical new ideas sparked a controversial battle that would last well into the next century. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the first women to wear bloomers and not a dress around her town and home, causing her husband (a judge) much ridicule and embarrassment. In 1851 at another convention in Seneca Falls, she met Susan B. Anthony a woman as passionate about the fight for women to vote as she was; oddly enough they met while Stanton was wearing bloomers. The women immediately became friends, and started full force to gain equal rights for women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote most of the speeches delivered by Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the woman behind the scenes, and as the years progressed so did their fight.

Susan B. Anthony helped start the movement for women’s rights in 1851 when she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Between the two of them, these women started in New York and slowly worked across ...

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women to become more outgoing and true to there own beliefs. Later in the century women would once again have to fight for equality but for a very different reason. Gloria Steinem is not only a successful businesswomen and co-founder of “Ms.” magazine, she was also a major figure in the women’s liberation movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It may have been written in her genetic code to be a feminist as her grandmother, Pauline Perlmutter Steinem, was a suffragist in the 1900’s. Steinem’s major life change came shortly before she left for a trip to India in 1956. She discovered that she was pregnant. After overhearing a conversation, she came to know about a new procedure that ...

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