On the right, Elizabeth Kady Stanton.
Their accomplishment?
The 19th Amendment to the USA Constitution which insured women the right to vote.
Whatever happened to The Equal Rights Amendment?
It is outrageous in this country that women out number men and they aren't 'interested' in having equal rights AND RESPONSIBLITIES under the law? Amazing. How can women vote on any issue or for any candidate unless they understand the full brevity of citizenship on equal status with the opposite gender?
Stanton/Anthony Friendship
"I revolted in spirit against the customs of society and the laws of the state that crushed my aspirations and debarred me from the pursuit of almost every object worthy of an intelligent, rational mind."
Emily Collins
These words summed up the sense of protest evoked in a significant number of women by the status allotted to them during the early part of the nineteenth century. Young Elizabeth Cady learned Greek and acquainted herself with law in her father's office. Instead of winning his praise, he only lamented "Elizabeth, if only you were a boy." Young middle-class women of the time watched their brothers depart for college while they stayed at home, lost all rights to property when they married (William Blackstone had said in his famous Commentaries, "Husband and wife are one and that one is the husband"), and, in some cases, were subjected to legally permissible physical punishment at the hands of their spouses to ensure their "obedience." If they spoke in public, they were denounced by the churches for "promiscuous activity." Most important, women were denied any voice in enactment of laws by which they were governed....
So, now as second class citizens women are allowed a voice in the laws created to govern them, but, they aren't allowed the status of men.
I wonder why there is still a glass ceiling?
And the women of the USA have the audacity to pass judgement on other oppressed women?
Really?
Let's see, women in the USA don't like women to be stoned in public in the Middle East, but, they have no need for completely equal footing with men in their own country. Isn't that just a tad bit ludicrous?
What gives USA women the right to speak against the cruel treatment of women elsewhere?
Freedom of Speech?
Are you sure?
