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    Stories of Women's Suffrage: Votes for Women!
    Stories of Women's Suffrage: Votes for Women!
    Stories of Women's Suffrage: Votes for Women!
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    Stories of Women's Suffrage: Votes for Women!

    By Charlotte Guillain and Steve Noon

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    Women used to have few rights. All the important decisions in their lives were made by men. They could not vote and give their opinion on who should run the country. By the middle of the 19th century, more and more women were starting to ask why not? These are the stories of five trailblazers who achieved amazing things in difficult circumstances: Elizabeth Cady Stanton began campaigning for women’s rights when she was refused entry to a convention because she was a woman. Susan B. Anthony cast her vote knowing she’d be arrested. Clementina Black organized a strike at a factory that paid women low wages. Carrie Chapman Catt traveled the world promoting the need for women’s suffrage. Emmeline Pankhurst led a march along Downing Street in London, petitioning the vote for women. Many of the rights women have today are thanks to their actions. They helped change society's image of women forever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJan 1, 2015
    ISBN9781484624470
    Stories of Women's Suffrage: Votes for Women!
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    Charlotte Guillain

    Charlotte Guillain has worked in children's publishing for over a decade and now writes non-fiction for children in Foundation and Key Stage 1. She has written on a range of subjects, including outer space, the environment and teeth! She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and two young children.

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      Stories of Women's Suffrage - Charlotte Guillain

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      Introduction

      Life for women around the world used to be very different from how it is for many women today. Most women had to obey the men in their lives and went from doing what their fathers told them to following what their husbands wanted.

      When a woman married, her husband automatically owned all her property. Very few women worked, and usually those who did were desperate for money. These women often worked long hours in dreadful conditions and received very little pay in return. Women had no rights, and very few women received a proper education. All the decisions in a woman’s life were made by men.

      By the 1850s, many women in different countries were starting to question this situation. They began joining together and asking for change.

      Elizabeth Cady Stanton: You should have been a boy!

      Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the women who began questioning women’s position in society. In the mid-1800s, she helped begin the struggle for women’s right to vote. She is perhaps best remembered for helping organize the Seneca Falls Convention, where she presented a then-bold series of demands for women’s rights. She continued this struggle throughout her long life, making Americans—and people around the world— reconsider women’s rights and role in society.

      Elizabeth was born in 1815 in Johnstown, New York. Her father was a lawyer and congressman. She was lucky to receive a good education, which was uncommon for girls at the time.

      Elizabeth enjoyed talking to her father about the law. By studying the current laws affecting women, such as their loss of property to their husbands after marriage, young Elizabeth developed an early sense of injustice. Her passionate personality was already formed, as she later remembered:

      So, when my attention was called to these [offensive] laws, I would mark them with a pencil, and I resolved to cut every one of them out of the books. However, this mutilation of my father’s volumes was never accomplished, for the housekeeper warned him of what I proposed to do.

      Elizabeth’s family was traditional and strict in many ways. She was constantly looking for her father’s approval and wanted to show him that she could achieve as much as her brothers. She later remembered:

      I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

      When she won a prize for Greek among a class of older boys, she described in her memoirs how she ran home to show her father, desperate for his recognition. But she was devastated by his reaction:

      Then, while I stood looking and waiting for him to say something which would show that he recognized the equality of the daughter with the son, he kissed me on the forehead and exclaimed, with a sigh, Ah, you should have been a boy!

      Moments of frustration and disappointment like this helped to shape Elizabeth into the young woman she became.

      Members of Elizabeth’s wider family were involved in the newly created abolitionist movement. There were 2.5 million slaves living and working in the United States in the late 1830s, usually existing in terrible conditions. The abolitionist movement was formed to stop this practice and to fight for the freedom and rights of all slaves.

      It was at a relative’s house that Elizabeth met Henry Stanton, an abolitionist who often worked for no pay to fight for the cause he so passionately supported. Elizabeth and Henry fell in love and were married a year

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