In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Falls Convention to address the issue of equal rights for women. The convention produced a Declaration of Sentiments, which laid out a list of injustices done to women by men. Given your knowledge of the first wave of the women’s movement, which of the following do you think was first on their list?
a. “He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.”
b. “He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.”
c. “He has created a false public sentiment by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society are not only tolerated, but deemed of little account in man.”
d. “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.”
d. “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.”
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