Women and Public life

  • Women having a greater political force

    Women were finding more opportunities to getting more involved in the life of the community.
  • Women with Higher education

    Women with Higher education
    Women had limited opportunities, it wasn't until the 1833 a college in Ohio admitted women as well as men.
  • Rise of the Women's suffrage movement

    When the delegates to Seneca falls convention met in 1848 to campaign for women's rights, little did they know how long it would take for women to win the right to vote.
  • Voting rights for women

    Women living in Wyoming Territory become the first American women to win the right to vote.
  • National Women Suffrage Association

    In 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Women Suffrage Association .
  • The percent of women in colleges

    By 1870 about 20 percent of all college students were women.
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony tired several times to introduce an Amendment bill.
  • Employment opportunities

    1900- Women who were educated and employed were being hired as artists and journalists.
  • Professional opportunities

    Many professional jobs were denying women. The American Medical Association did not admit women members until 1915
  • Women and voting rights.

    In 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment is ratified, guaranteeing women the right to vote.