Women's Rights In The 1800s

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women across the United States were limited to only being able to be housewives and not able to get the proper education to have the same type of jobs as men. Events like the Women’s Rights
Movement started to gain attention for the equality of women and ladies like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton joined forces to create the National Woman Suffrage Association. In the story of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” women during the time it was written (1892), still didn’t have the right to vote or treated equally and were oppressed. Women rights groups began forming across America at a rapid rate such as the National Women’s Trade Union League which fought for increase wages and working conditions for women (1903), the National Association of

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