Answer: The women’s suffrage movement has its origins in the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, the first women’s rights convention ever held in the United States. Approximately three hundred activists, female and male, gathered to discuss the condition of women and to devise strategies for achieving social and political rights for women. Though women’s suffrage was a topic of debate at the convention, it was not the main goal of the movement at this early stage, and the convention’s resolution demanding women’s suffrage was the only resolution that was not passed unanimously.^1
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US Constitution was amended and that law assured the women to participate in elections. Many women associations proclaimed their protest for an alteration to the U.S. Constitution to assure women equal privileges with men.
Women’s rights are the major human rights declared by United Nations seventy years ago..
These rights are to live free and independent from any aspect of forcefulness, oppression, and discrimination; to be educated and refined; to own assets and property; to cast a vote; and to earn by fair means.
