Anything boys can do, girls can do better

This picture was taken on August 26, 1920, otherwise known as the day women received the right to vote. The women in the picture are rejoicing because they finally won the ongoing battle to get women another right. The first attempts at getting the right to vote for women were in 1848 at a Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls. Two women organized the event: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. They set in motion a series of events that would change the way the world viewed women forever and neither of them even got to reap the benefits of their works. What is truly amazing is the fact that all the women who were involved in women’s suffrage gave up everything they had in order to see women receive the rights that they deserved, knowing that they would probably never live to see it happen. They possessed such a passion for the rights of women that they sacrificed all their time for that one goal. If some of us today had even a fraction of that fire for what we believed in, I can’t even begin to imagine how different the world would be. Their zealous attitudes gave women the right to have a say in the make up of this wonderful country we live in and I believe that women today should continually thank these women who fought for their rights because if it wasn’t for them, women wouldn’t have any of the privileges they do today.