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Rights for Women Section 2
Limited Property Rights
non-married women
could buy and sell property and enter business contracts on their own
could keep earned money
Married women
could not buy/sell property or enter business contracts w/o husband approval
had to turn over cash and wages to husbands
Woman's Roles at Home
middle class men could support their families without their wives having to work
many people argued that this meant married women should not work outside their home
1800s, society dev. middle class
Education for Women
as public education improved in 1800s, more women went to school
were taught basic reading, writing and math skills
Education was not important for a long time
The Idea of True Womanhood
Women should focus on home and children
Women should avoid politics and business
Women should obey male authority
Women should be pure and religious
Higher Education for Women
New schools offered women more advanced educations
many institutes trained women to be teachers
Education for women was still very limited
Few law or medical schools would admit women
Women in the Workforce
many factories hired young, single women to run machinery
often barred from jobs in medicine or law
women had few job options in 1800s
married women were discouraged from working outside the home
Limited Representation in the Courts
Most states limited women's representation in court
could not serve on juries
could not serve as judges
could not work as lawyers
no right to vote, could not elect any public officials, struggled to pass laws to gain them more rights
Women in Social Movements
These movements were often about home life or moral standards
Temperance movement to limit drinking of alcohol, abolition movement, end slavery
In 1800, many women supported social reform movements
Lucretia Mott (17932-1880)
leader in abolition and temperance movements
served as a delegate to World Antislavery Convention in 1840, not allowed to speak
Helped organized Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Helped organize the Seneca Falls Conventions
Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, leader in women's rights movement
member of abolitionist movement
Seneca Falls and the Dec. of Sediments
Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote Declaration of Sentiments
Described unjust laws
Demanded equality for women in work and education
Demanded the right to vote, was modeled on the Dec. of Ind.
Seneca Falls Convention
called attention to discrimination against women
organize women to fight for their rights as citizens
1848, Mott and Stanton called the Seneca Falls Convention
issue a statement of goals and principles for the women's rights movement
led to more conventions, inspired women's rights movement, set of goals
The Early Suffrage Movement
Two national organizations formed in 1869
They each took a different approach
After Seneca Falls, new organizations began to fight for women;s suffrage, the right for women to vote
AWSA and NWSA
AWSA (American Woman Suffrage Association) founded and led by Lucy Stone, focused mainly on gaining voting rights for women, Had male officers and allied with Republican Party
NWSA (National Women suffrage Association) formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, wanted constitutional amendment for women's voting rights, fought for greater equality in society
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
key leader for women's suffrage
worked w/ temperance and abolition movements
confounded and led NWSA
arrested for attempting to vote in 1872 for election
Slow Progress
1890 Wyoming became first state to let women vote
1912, only 9 states allowed full women's voting rights
1869 Wyoming Territory granted women the vote