Find out about the long fight for womens voting rights. Learn about the many brave heroes like Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth. Who was at the Seneca Falls Convention? Why were the western states more free for women than the eastern states? When was the Woman Suffrage Amendment finally passed? Why did the struggle for voting rights last for more than 100 years?
Text-to-World Connection Women fought for the right to vote for many years. Today, women fight for equal pay and the right to work and go to school and be safe from sexual harassment or assault.
Women have had to fight for the right to breastfeed their babies in public and at work. And women are fighting for paid maternity leave.