The Womens Movement Section Three Womens Rights Movement

The Women's Movement Section Three

Women’s Rights Movement The Women’s Movement also wanted women to enjoy the same rights and liberties as others.

Lucretia Mott founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. She joined forces with Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Seneca Falls Convention

Seneca Falls Convention The Seneca Falls Convention was held in 1848 by Mott and Stanton and called for an end to any laws that discriminated against women (especially suffrage, the right to vote).

Susan B. Anthony also argued for equal pay for women, college training for girls, coeducation in schools, and a female temperance movement. She founded the Daughters of Temperance.

Beecher and Stowe Catherine Beecher and Emma Hart Willard championed the rights of female teachers. Their ideas helped found the Milwaukee College for Women to train teachers.

“Hartford Female Seminary”

Troy Female Seminary Willard also founded the Troy Female Seminary to teach all subjects to women: math, science, etc. In the 1800’s, women also began to have property rights after marriage along with joint guardianship of children.

Elizabeth Blackwell broke down barriers in higher education by being accepted to Geneva College and eventually becoming a doctor.