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women had little to no rights, including the right to speak publicly. married women were considered “property” of their husbands and no women had the right to vote.

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Lowell textile workers went on strike against wage reductions, practiced birth control, started the New York Female Reform Society to help prostitutes and attack the double standards of sexuality. In Seneca Falls, New York, a group of women created a “Declaration of Sentiments” to show the problems they have. Meetings and conventions were held every year to fight for sufferage and women’s rights.

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equal rights for women and men, including speaking publicly and voting.

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Abby Kelley was a young Quaker teacher in Massachusetts and she began circulating antislavery petitions. In 1838, she braved the threats of an angry crowd in a speech to a convention of antislavery women. The speech was so good that Theodore Dwight Weld, an architect for the abolitionist movement, told her she should join the movement full time

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Women's Suffrage: Crash Course US History #31

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in 1920, the 19th Amendment was adopted to the Constitution, which gave all white women the right to vote.

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She was one of many women who came to reform through religious conviction. Activism in the movements for abolitionism, care of society’s outcasts, black rights, and other reforms led by women to realize their rights, beginning with the right to speak in public

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in 2016, the first woman to be a major party candidate for President, Hillary Clinton, ran a strong campaign. Women are being elected to Congress and governorships more than ever before. The Woman’s March is an organization designed to expand women’s rights, including equal pay.