The Women

1
The Womens Movement

• Women begin to recognize and fight against their
  own lack of equality

2

• Suffrage right to vote
• Coeducationeducating boys and girls together
• Changing life/work style..mid 1800
• Jobs in city (away from home)
• Great Awakening influence
• Womens role

3

• Seneca Falls Convention
• July 1848
• First womens rights convention
• Issued a declaration of Sentiments Resolutions

4

• Lucretia Mott
• Quaker
• Temperance, peace, workers rights, abolition
• Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Joined with Mott and Anthony
• Both helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention

5

• Susan B. Anthony
• Quaker
• advocated
• Equal pay
• College
• Coeducation
• Womens suffrage (1920)
• Catherine Beecher
• Educate women to take care of home children
• Emma Hart Willard
• Same idea as Beecher
• Expanded to math science
• Established Troy Female Seminary in NY

6

• Mary Lyon
• Establish Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Mass.
• Elizabeth Blackwell
• Ist woman to graduate from medical school
• Oberlin College
• Ist college to accept women African Americans
• Women also made gains divorce and in property
  ownership and custody of children after marriage