Many women have worked to advance women’s rights in the U.S. Below are 5 of these women.
To learn more about women’s struggle to obtain the right to vote, check out American Experience, The Vote. Some of these women featured below are also discussed in this 2-part documentary from PBS.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1815-1902, Author and Women’s Rights Activist
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”
Learn more about Elizabeth by clicking the links below:
National Women’s History Museum
Photo obtained from Wikipedia.
Francis E. W. Harper
1825-1911, American Poet, Abolitionist, and Suffragette
“Today our government needs woman’s conscience as well as man’s judgment. …I do think that woman should have some power to defend herself from oppression, and equal laws as if she were a man.”
Learn more about Francis by clicking the links below:
National Women’s History Museum
Photo obtained from Britannica.
Alice Paul
1885-1977, Women’s Rights Activist (Suffragette)
“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”
Learn more about Alice by clicking the links below:
Photo obtained from National Women’s History Museum.
Rosie The Riveter
Media icon associated with female defense workers during World War II.
Yes we can!
Yes we can!
Yes we can!
Learn more about Rosie by clicking the links below:
The History Channel on YouTube
Photo obtained from The History Channel.
Betty Friedan
1921-2006, Journalist and co-founder of the National Organization of Women (NOW), Author of The Feminine Mystique.
“A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination.”
Learn more about Betty by clicking the links below:
Hear Betty speak about feminism.
Photo obtained from The History Channel.