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Seneca Falls Declaration Of Sentiments Summary

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In the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, Elizabeth Stanton writes of many grievances against women by men. The three most grievous are:

3. “He has monopolized nearly all profitable employments and from those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty remuneration. . .” Here Elizabeth Stanton explains that men have not allowed women into certain positions of employment, such as medicine and law. This is grievous because while women can’t hold any of these positions, they are forced to take up “feminine” jobs, if they are able to at all, and women are not able to study what they are truly passionate about.
2. “He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men—both natives and foreigners.” …show more content…

This is taxation without representation, and takes away part of a voice needed to run a country properly.
1. “He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a through education, all colleges being closed against her.”
The most grievous act on women, in my opinion, is withholding the right to education. This is a barbaric act upon women, and one of the cruelest ways to keep people in a lower “class” than where you are placed. By not allowing women to further their education, men are saying they are stupid beings who can’t fathom the information available to them. This list of grievances is extensive, these are the three that are the least grievous of them.
3. “He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.”
This grievance is a lesser one because men are not the only ones who harms women’s continence. Women also do a fine job at putting themselves down, therefore, men are not only at fault for this.
2. “After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single, and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to

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