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Women's Suffrage and Employment

The United States’ women’s suffrage movement has a deep history. All the way back to the American Revolution, some women were asking for the right to vote. John Adams’ wife famously wrote a letter to her husband specifically asking that the Founding Fathers include women’s right to vote in the Constitution. Of course, women were not granted that right by arrogant men.

The modern woman’s suffrage movement has its roots in 18th century France, and the U.S. suffrage movement has its more direct roots in the mid 1800s, when women began to agitate increasingly for the right to vote. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention in New York marked the start of the women’s suffrage movement in the U.S. At this meeting, women met to discuss how to get the vote. It was starting with this convention that the major names in the women’s suffrage movement began their work. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott joined the movement here, and Susan B. Anthony joined not long after.

Gradually, women began to be allowed to vote in certain states. The first state to allow women to vote was Wyoming, followed soon after by Utah. Despite the gradual gains achieved in states, at the federal level serious agitation did not begin taking place until the early 20th century. Up until and through World War I, women began demanding the right to vote through rallies and marches that garnered much attention. Eventually, in 1920, women were constitutionally granted the vote through the 19th amendment.

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The women’s suffrage movement helped set the stage to end all discrimination. If you feel you have been discriminated against in the workplace, contact the Orange County Employment Discrimination Attorneys of Perry Smith by visiting their website or by calling 888-356-2529.