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What Is Susan B Anthony Petition For Women's Rights

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One of the women who fought for women's rights is Susan B. Anthony. She was born in Adams, Massachusetts and comes from a Quaker family. Anthony is the second oldest of her eight siblings. In the mid 1840’s, Anthony family moved to a farm in the New York area, she started to engage in the abolitionist movement. In her family farm, she holded meetings with abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Jr. Susan B. Anthony was a person who fought for justice and was always into social issues. She once said “The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce …show more content…

was one of the advocates who agreed with the injustice for women who were not given equal rights. He made a petition for women's suffrage who are willing to stand up for their rights and fight for equal justice, to be sent to the U.S. Congress. The Douglass family signed the petition for women's suffrage ". . . to prohibit the several States from Disfranchising United States Citizens on account of Sex." Frederick was always supporting women and participated in the Seneca Falls convention in 1848. Also he wrote in his article about women not being given the same rights as men, and he supported them throughout his article, which was published in The North Star. Not many men agreed with the idea of letting women participate in the same jobs men participate.
In Everyday injustices for working women: The slights add up website, even though today women have the freedom of association and press, men are feeling less powerful than women at work. When women present problems are an issue at work, they are seen weak and not a strong person who wants to find solutions to the conflict. Although, when men present their problems, they are seen strong, uptight person who is able to take charge to find a solution not like the women. Unfortunately, women are not accredited for their hard …show more content…

They decided to quit paying taxes since they could not vote and have a say in deciding. Unfortunately, they were taken to jail. Until now, women are working in assembly’s, as lawyers and other high- status jobs, but still nowadays women are earning less working the same job men do. Meanwhile, women work in these jobs it does not mean they do not face problems throughout their lives. Most of the time, men are not satisfied with women being present at meetings or other events, which is not fair for them. Women are being seen less than men.
I believe that there is not a difference in the abilities of women and men and especially seeing women not capable enough to work the same job as men do. Women are capable to do anything and they work hard for what they really want like any human being. Still today we have a lot of people protesting and fighting for what they believe

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