Women Struggle for Freedom

In 1995, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary. The Nineteenth Amendment, passed in 1920, gave women the right to vote. The struggle for suffrage in America took many years. It began in the 1800's with leaders such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Martha Thomas, Carrie Chapman Clark, and Stanton's daughter, Harriot E. Blatch, carried it into the 1900's. The struggle officially started in 1848, at the Seneca Falls Convention in New …

…women and women all over the world. As we enter the new millennium the changes they dreamed of are still far from complete. There are still countries that oppress women, and women are still oppressed in the United States. Not nearly as bad as the 1800's, but oppressed none the less. Today it is said women are considered equal to men. Even though women were considered lesser than men, they never really were, were they?