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According to the oxford dictionary, the definition of women’s rights is â€Å"rights possessed by women, esp. as considered to be equal with those of men† ("Women’s rights"). Ever since women have existed, they have been stereotypically been looked at as weaker than men because of society’s typical gender roles. Women have fought for equal rights although out Americas’ history and because of their determination, the women of today’s society can now vote in presidential elections, serve in congress alongside men, and obtain jobs that were labeled as jobs that only men could do. The women that got the ball rolling when it came to getting equal rights were Elizabeth Sady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. They came up with the idea to hold a convention, which would later be coined the Seneca Falls convention, to advocate about the equal rights that women should have. They got the idea from there experience at the World Anti-Slavery meeting ("S eneca Falls Convention"). During the meeting, they were denied the opportunity to speak from the floor or to be seated as delegates just because they were women ("Seneca Falls Convention"). Mott and Stanton left the hall in disappointment and began discussing ways in which they could change the discrimination that they and many other women encountered throughout their lives ("Seneca Falls Convention"). Furthermore, in July of 1848 The Seneca Falls Convention, which was organized by Staton, Mott and three other women named Martha Coffin Wright, Jane Hunt and Mary Ann McClintock, was held in Seneca Falls, New York in Wesleyan Church chapel and lasted two days. On the first day although originally planned for women only, saw the arrival of approximately 100 to 300 men and women; and even though ... ...me thing. That is why after almost twenty years of rivalry they decided to end their differences and merge together to form the National American Women Suffrage Association and further strengthen the fight for women to vote by focusing on the state level (â€Å"Women’s Suffrage†). The efforts of the association and of all the women who had fought for women’s rights since the Seneca falls convention because on May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment, and 2 weeks later, the Senate also passed it. After Tennessee became the 36th state to pass the amendment on August 18, 1920, the amendment passed its final test winning with an agreement of three-fourths of the states; and lastly, on august 26, 1920, the Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification. The way women were treated in the United States would dramatically change forever. Essay -- According to the oxford dictionary, the definition of women’s rights is â€Å"rights possessed by women, esp. as considered to be equal with those of men† ("Women’s rights"). Ever since women have existed, they have been stereotypically been looked at as weaker than men because of society’s typical gender roles. Women have fought for equal rights although out Americas’ history and because of their determination, the women of today’s society can now vote in presidential elections, serve in congress alongside men, and obtain jobs that were labeled as jobs that only men could do. The women that got the ball rolling when it came to getting equal rights were Elizabeth Sady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. They came up with the idea to hold a convention, which would later be coined the Seneca Falls convention, to advocate about the equal rights that women should have. They got the idea from there experience at the World Anti-Slavery meeting ("S eneca Falls Convention"). During the meeting, they were denied the opportunity to speak from the floor or to be seated as delegates just because they were women ("Seneca Falls Convention"). Mott and Stanton left the hall in disappointment and began discussing ways in which they could change the discrimination that they and many other women encountered throughout their lives ("Seneca Falls Convention"). Furthermore, in July of 1848 The Seneca Falls Convention, which was organized by Staton, Mott and three other women named Martha Coffin Wright, Jane Hunt and Mary Ann McClintock, was held in Seneca Falls, New York in Wesleyan Church chapel and lasted two days. On the first day although originally planned for women only, saw the arrival of approximately 100 to 300 men and women; and even though ... ...me thing. That is why after almost twenty years of rivalry they decided to end their differences and merge together to form the National American Women Suffrage Association and further strengthen the fight for women to vote by focusing on the state level (â€Å"Women’s Suffrage†). The efforts of the association and of all the women who had fought for women’s rights since the Seneca falls convention because on May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment, and 2 weeks later, the Senate also passed it. After Tennessee became the 36th state to pass the amendment on August 18, 1920, the amendment passed its final test winning with an agreement of three-fourths of the states; and lastly, on august 26, 1920, the Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification. The way women were treated in the United States would dramatically change forever.