How unfairly Women were treated

Press button below to show content. . . In the workplace women were discriminated against. Many people believed that a women's place was in the home and that cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the family was their job, women worked in places like factories and were paid a very low salary for their hard work.

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How it all started

The first major public appeal for women's suffrage came in 1848 when Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called for a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. At the convention they created the Declaration of Sentiments. The Declaration of Sentiments demanded for women to have equal rights to men in education, property, voting, and other issues.

What they did
Women started to teach themselves how to read, if they did not already know. By teaching themselves they were able to accomplish much more. For instance, by making clubs or groups to teach themselves they were also able to sew and accomplish other domestic tasks, as well as studying and learning useful books.