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A description of the Equal Rights Amendment that provides the 3 sections is part of a document on the history of women in America. The description also includes information on the writing and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and the importance of support of the ERA. The site also includes links to information on the first women to support equal rights, the Daughters of Liberty, the new middle class, and the origins of feminism. External links are available as well.

URL: http://www.fayettenam.com/history/19amen.html

TIME 100: Emmeline Pankhurst

Without the many women and men that fought for women's rights in the early years of America's history, women would not have had all the freedoms and rights that they enjoy today. It is for this reason that we commemorate the activists that made this life possible, one of these being a woman named Emmeline Pankhurst. Time Magazine has this web site that celebrates her life and her work on this web site with a well-written biography.

URL: http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/pankhurst01.html

Pre-Civil War Reform: Women's Rights Period (1820-1860)

In early American history women did not have any rights in society. They could not get into colleges, vote, or hold public office. A woman could not own property or even get custody of her children in case of divorce. Many women worked on gaining these rights for women in America. This article discusses several women who made a difference. Here you will read about women abolitionists and women suffragists in American history and what they accomplished.

Topic: Women--Suffrage

URL: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=630

Motherhood, Social Service, and Political Reform: Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage

Women had to fight for the right to vote. The history of women's suffrage is described on this site in photos and text. View historic photographs of women and events that made the right to vote a possibility for women. See women at picket lines for this political cause, and hear recordings of suffrage songs. Learn about the Seneca Falls Convention and its importance. Meet many women who championed the suffrage cause including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Mott, and others. View posters, buttons, banners, advertisements and more.

Topic: Women--Suffrage

URL: http://www.nmwh.org/exhibits/exhibit_frames.html

Activists and Reformers

"They struggled for change to make America a better place for all." Read about Jane Adams, who worked to help poor working class families. Although she was from a wealthy family, she founded Hull House, a center in Chicago that provided child care, a community kitchen, and visiting nurses to people in the slums, many of them immigrants. Find out about Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leaders in the women's rights movement and a writer and speaker for the National Woman Suffrage Association.

Topic: Women's rights--History

URL: http://www.americaslibrary.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists

International Women's Day

Celebrate International Women's Day on March 8. The United Nations dedicated a day to women for two reasons: First, peace and social progress require the active participation of women. Secondly, women have contributed to international peace and security. For women, it is a reminder of how far they have come in their battle and effort for equality. Ongoing issues for women's rights include the right to the same opportunities and pay as men, and the right to be protected from violence. Read about the garment workers' protest and the "bread and roses" march.

Topic: Women's rights--History

URL: http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/days/women/index.asp

Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage

At the first woman's right convention, the right to vote was very controversial. Seventy-two years, and several generations of women, passed from the time suffrage was first proposed until women finally won the right to vote. Pictures and written information tell the story of these years of lobbying, education, and marches. After the Civil War, African-American men were granted the right to vote. Women's voting, on the other hand, was seen as outrageous. Learn about the suffrage organizations and how the movement moved toward nonviolent confrontation and civil disobedience in order to accomplish their goals.

Topic: Women's rights--History

URL: http://www.nmwh.org/exhibits/intro.html

Women's Rights Movement

From the U. S. National Park Service's online collection of articles about historic places in America, this page describes what happened during the 1848 Seneca Falls Woman's Right Convention in New York, a site where we now find the Woman's Right National Historical Park. The article, illustrated with photographs of the convention site, also includes a brief description of the proceedings and information on the impact of this gathering of women upon social and cultural life in the late nineteenth century. Click on the "Wesleyan Chapel" link to access a slideshow with additional images.

Topic: Women's rights--History

URL: http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/womens-rights-movement.htm

Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement

For the past 150 years, millions of women have lectured, wrote, marched, petitioned, lobbied, and paraded for women's rights. Margaret Mead said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world." Women have gained United States citizenship, the right to vote, laws against gender discrimination, financial and employment rights, and equal access to educational opportunities. Read about the Equal Right Amendment as well as current issues. Analyze the detailed timeline of the legal rights of women in the United States.

Topic: Women's rights--History

URL: http://www.legacy98.org/move-hist.html

The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women

The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women, including a preamble and thirty articles, is described as an international bill of rights for women. Written by the United Nations in 1979, it defines discrimination against women and sets up an agenda to end it. Those who sign it commit themselves to including these principles of equality in their legal systems. Women's rights in this document include equal access to voting, education, health, and employment.

Topic: Women's rights--History

URL: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/

The National Women's Hall of Fame

The Women of the Hall section of The National Women's Hall of Fame web site lists biographies of women who have made important steps in promoting women as leaders throughout history. Among the women discussed are: Madeleine Albright, Eudora Welty, Juliette Low, Rosa Parks, Dorothea Dix, Margaret Sanger, and Betty Friedan.

Topic: Women's rights--History

URL: http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php

The Seneca Falls Convention - 1848

The Smithsonian Institute offers this information about the Seneca Falls Convention, which took place on July 19th and 20th in 1848. Find out how the seed for the Seneca Falls Convention, which was the first Woman's Rights Convention, was planted in 1840. Read about some of the people involved in the convention. They include Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony. Portraits and images of those participants are included. Other Smithsonian Institute information can be accessed from the site.

Topic: Women--History

URL: http://www.npg.si.edu/col/seneca/senfalls1.htm

Women's Suffrage

The online quarterly journal from History Now provides several perspectives on women's suffrage. Articles written by historians discuss the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 and its importance to organization of the women's rights movement in the United States. Find out the legal status of women from 1776 to 1830. There is an article about feminist writings of nineteenth century women and an introduction to women in politics in the twentieth century. Take a voting rights quiz.

Topic: Women--Suffrage

URL: http://www.historynow.org/03_2006/index.html

Women's Rights

The term "women's rights" means that women will not face discrimination on the basis of their sex. Women will have the same political, economic, and social status as men. Did you know that until the middle of the 19th century, women were not allowed some of the political and legal rights as men? Some people today still believe women face discrimination. After reading through this article, what is your opinion? Do women in the United States have the same political, economic and social status as men?

Topic: Women's rights--History

URL: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574034/Women%E2%80%99s_Rights.html

Victorians: Women's Rights

This BBC site offers an interactive gave to help you learn about the development of women's rights in Victorian times. Rights concerning divorce, jobs, education, money, voting, and children are explored. One of the earliest rights of Victorian women was the right to custody of young children if she was separated from her husband. The right to get a divorce from her husband or have access to the money she earned if she did came next. British women did not have the right to vote until 1928.

Topic: Women's rights--History

URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_gms_womens_rights.shtml

National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall

Born in 1859 in Wisconsin and growing up in Iowa, Carrie Lane, her maiden name, held careers in education and in editing a newspaper before she began her work for the woman's suffrage movement. Her crusade began locally, but then quickly became a full time, national engagement, creating the League of Women Voters. This site is an overview of the life and accomplishments of Carrie Chapman Catt. There is biographical information, as well as details about her fight for equal rights for women until the time of her death in 1947.

Topic: Women--Suffrage--Biography

URL: http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=38