Susan B Anthony On Women's Suffrage

Most people who think of women’s suffrage think about women fighting for their right to vote. They think about the political campaigns and the brutality that came along with it. What most people don’t realize is that it took decades and even centuries for women to gain their freedoms and their rights, and not just the right to vote. Women gained the right to vote, the right to buy their own property, the right to gain an education, the right to decide what happens to her own body and even the simple right to work outside of the home to earn money. While some say women should be home to tend to the house and children, women are independent, intelligent, and are citizens of the country just as men are and deserve the same rights as men when …show more content…
Anthony was one of the leaders of the women’s suffrage. “Testing another strategy, Susan B. Anthony registered and voted in the 1872 election in Rochester, NY. As planned, she was arrested for "knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully vot[ing] for a representative to the Congress of the United States," convicted by the State of New York, and fined $100, which she insisted she would never pay a penny of.” (National Archives, N.D.) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, another leader in the campaign, decided before 1877 that women needed more rights than what they had. She started to stand up for what they deserved. On July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York Stanton gave her first speech to set off the women rights movement. She believed that women deserved the right to vote and the right to own properties. Stanton said in her speech, “there are deep and tender chords of sympathy and love in the hearts of the downfallen and oppressed that woman can touch more skillfully than man.” (Great American Documents, 2008) She believed that women were equal to a man. This speech was very powerful. This speech said a lot of the same point of views that women fought for across the next …show more content…
Marches and parades were more powerful than petitions were. Speeches made were more powerful than petitions as well. These actions showed that women were also people. Women had to obey they laws but had no say in them; this was why they wanted to change them. After the war ended many women were forced into getting jobs. This occurred around 1941. Women were not used to working. Many women stayed home to care for the home and children. When they had to go out and find a job, they could only find retail and factory jobs. Many women worked long hours and made very little compared to a man. Even children had to go work in these grueling factories and make little amount of money and put their lives in danger just to make end’s meat. After many years of not making as much money as men, women finally fought for their right to get equal pay. In 1963, the Equal Pay Act were passed by Congress. This act was passed so that women could support their families financially just the same as a man. They could work in the same places and not have to worry about not making enough money. Before the act was put into place most women only made a third of what men would make. Having a maternity leave, affordable childcare, and fair hiring, between male and female were all a part of the Equal Pay