Women and Political Power

Through the history of America many women have worked for justice and equal rights for all citizens.
In the 1770s American women protested Britain in many different ways. Women that stayed at home boycotted tea and they also boycotted British clothes by making their own clothes. Some business women took more active roles in protesting. Mary Goddard was a printer and she issued the first copy of the Declaration of Independence with the signatures.
In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Stanton launched the first women’s suffrage movement. Stanton introduced her Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention. In 1920, the 19th amendment was adopted by the United States. It gave women the fight to vote.
Throughout the mid 1900s more women entered the work force. They wanted equal pay for equal work. Women hoped the Equal Rights Amendment would pass and that it would give women equal social and economical rights as men. The ERA failed to pass.
In 2001 there are many women filling political positions. In the 107th congress 60 women served in the house and 13 women served in the senate. Women in America have taken many steps to achieving equal social, economical and political rights as men.