How Did Susan B Anthony Change Society

Women did not always have the rights they do today. Women were oppressed for centuries, and the path to getting equality in America today was not easy. Many Women’s rights activists, who we now call feminists, have tried to fix it, but the woman who finally started to get women’s rights taken seriously was Susan B Anthony. Susan did many difficult things to get what she did done, and ultimately what she did changed the way our country feels about women today. Susan B Anthony was a women’s rights activist in the 1800’s. Anthony went all over the United States to circulate petitions, give speeches, and organize women's rights organizations to get attention to the women’s suffrage movement. Before that all started though, she was involved

This is the most important thing Susan did because it was the most influential thing that started the end of the women’s suffrage movement. The law Susan made gave women the courage to get together and fight for more rights. This courage is still present in feminist groups today fighting for equality among all races, and genders. The law also helped women today begin to think about themselves as equals to men in the terms of property and wages. Another thing the law did for women today is it let women have rights to their children in the case of a divorce so that they would not have to give up their children completely to their husbands. Above all, the greatest thing this law did to make America into the country we know it as today is that it allows today's women the opportunity to earn their own money and have title to their own property without needing a man to fall heir to it or give permission for them to own it. With the law in place it finally gave women the chance to make it on their own without needing a husband to support them. Making that possible is what made the country into a place where all people are treated equally no matter their