The document discusses the history of women's rights from the 19th century to today. It notes that before the 20th century, women did not have equal rights to men. The first women's rights convention was held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY. In 1869, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association to fight for women's right to vote. The 19th amendment in 1920 helped bring more equality by giving women the right to vote. While progress has been made, the document notes women still face issues like the glass ceiling and lack of full equality in some parts of the world.
10. Susan B. Anthony
Biography Video
• She was a prominent civil rights
leader during the women's suffrage
movement of the 1800s.
• She co-founded the National
Woman Suffrage Association
(NWSA).
11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an
abolitionist and leading figure of
the early woman's movement.
• Stanton was the president of the
National Woman Suffrage
Association for 20 years and worked
closely with Susan B. Anthony.
12. Lucretia Mott
• Mott joined Stanton at the Seneca
Falls Convention in New York in
1848.
• She published her influential
Discourse on Woman in 1850.
14. The Struggle Still Continues…
Women still face the issue of
glass ceiling.
15. The Glass Ceiling
The glass ceiling is a form of discrimination which prevents
educated, professional, well qualified, hardworking women from
being promoted to higher levels in an organization.
