"EVERY WOMEN DESERVES COMPLETE SOVEREIGNTY BECAUSE THEY, LIKE MEN , HAVE ONLY THEMSELVES TO RELY ON IN A TIME OF CRISIS." - ELIZABETH CADY STATON
as early as 1848, women in the north began to join the paid work force, seek higher educational opportunities, and perceived a new sense of selfhood. early women's rights activists publicly advocated woman's rights in state legislature, at the growing number of women's conventions and in lectures to social organizations. They stated that women had the same rights to political, social, religious, and economic independence as men simply because they are no different from men. many people participated in the women's rights social movement and the common goal was to declare their rights as those equal to men.