Elizabeth Cady Stanton In Women's Rights Movement

Most people do not know of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but much to people’s surprise, she was just as important in Women’s Rights Movement as Susan B. Anthony, if not more important. Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped to create remarkable strides in the Women's Rights. During her life, Elizabeth was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, writer, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the women’s rights movement. She also organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott whose aim was to obtain equal rights for women. During the Convention, Cady Stanton wrote the “Declaration of Sentiments” which declared that American women should have the same civil and political rights that American men had, including the right to vote. In 1870, Elizabeth Cady Stanton would establish the National Women's Suffrage Association, with Susan B. Anthony.

She was the leading figure of the women's rights movement for a long period of time. She was good friends with Susan B. Anthony and together, with the help of others, arranged the Seneca Falls Convention. The Declaration of Sentiments, written by Stanton, is often called one of the first steps towards women’s rights. Stanton did not only address the important issue of voting but also divorce, property rights, birth control, employment, custody rights, and many other issues. Stanton was also the first president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and resigned at the age of seventy-seventy. Unlike other women, she was willing to speak out on many issues, from women’s suffrage to the woman's right to ride bicycles; she was always looking for a way to speak out and reform. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s was always working towards her main goal of the equal treatment of men and women and because of this, she is recognized as one of the most remarkable individuals in women's history as well as American