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…Beginning the Move Towards Woman's Suffrage The very first woman's rights convention was held at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony were among the women who has organized…

…Even though still today women are often under- represented in various institutes it is difficult to imagine that only 90 years ago women had to fight for their right to vote. In many different ways women were regarded as second class. An error made…

…Today, women in nearly all countries have the same voting rights as men. But they did not begin to gain such rights until the early 1900's, and they had to overcome strong opposition to get them. The men and women who supported the drive for woman…

…Indeed, throughout the nineteenth century, women were encouraged to aspire to marriage. In The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits, Sarah Stickney Ellis, a best-selling author, maintained that women were “clothed in moral beauty…

…-dominated field, but she is also an advocate for women’s rights. Jane Evershed is undoubtedly an inspiration for women every-where. As a young woman approaching adulthood, this social issue is exceptionally personally relevant. It is also an issue that has been…

…) The above statement is quite simple, yet her religious beliefs and the more contemporary beliefs that women have rights to make choices about what will happen to her body and soul stand firm. Why would anyone want Isabella make matters worse, after all, her…

…for their place within society. Regardless of these difficulties, women gathered strength in numbers and succeeded in establishing permanent social changes. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton began to work together on women's rights and one of the first…

…An Era of Reform Who would have known that what first started off as a hand-full of people at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 would snowball into an all-out rebellion against the cruel and unjust treatment of women? The woman's rights movement…

…Mary Wollstonecraft has been called a forward-looking feminist. She was a woman that was decades ahead of her time. Her writing, A Vindication of Rights of Men (1790) is one of the most important documents in the history of women's rights…

…Women In Architecture Of what historic and contemporary concern is it that the architecture profession has been, and continues to be, strongly male dominated in Australia (currently 90% of registered architects in NSW are men). Ideally, what proportion…