1. A call for women’s rights
History
A call for women’s rights

2. Why do women's movements matter?
Without women’s movements:
Voting
Military
Higher education
Abortions
Rape wasn’t recognized
“Plan B”
Discrimination in workplace

3. Women’s suffrage:
women’s right to vote.
Women’s rights movement:
organized movement to gain the right to vote but also to improve social and economic status of women.

4. Sojourner Truth Born into slavery in NY.
Illiterate but had a powerful voice that moved crowds.
Abolitionist, helped recruiting black troops for the Union Army, pro- women’s rights.
“Ain't I a Woman?“ speech

5. https://youtu.be/yq3AYiRT4no

6. Lucretia Mott Quaker Worked with antislavery movement
Quakers allowed women to take public roles
Antislavery convention
told women could not attend
meet Stanton

7. Seneca Falls Convention
First public meeting about women’s rights in the United States.
1848, Seneca Falls, NY.
The convention was held “to discuss the social, civil, and religious rights on women”.
300 MEN and women attended.

9. Declaration of Sentiments vs. Declaration of Independence

10. Convention Outcomes Married Women's Property Act.
Led to women’s right to vote.
Changed education.
New careers: teachers, scientists, journalists.

11. ELIZABETH Margret Fuller
BLACKWELL
MARIA MITCHELL
Margret
Fuller

12. Women's Movements First wave of women’s movements: 1848 to 1920.
Second wave: 1960’s to 1970’s
Third wave: 2000’s
Women's Movements

13. Today
Okla. HB 1441, states: "No abortion shall be performed in this state without the written informed consent of the father of the fetus.“
President Trump, Mexico City policy.