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It is difficult to answer this question, because there have been women's rights movements in a number of countries. But let me discuss the Women's Rights movement in the US. Some people say that Abigail Adams, wife of Founding Father (and later President) John Adams, began the conversation in 1776, when she asked her husband in a letter to "remember the ladies" with regard to rights for married women (at that time, not only couldn't women vote, but under the common law, married women were considered the property of their husband). Unfortunately, her request was ignored.
The first official gathering of women who advocated for equality under the law was held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY. By most accounts, it was a small but passionate group (perhaps 125 people-- mostly women, but a few men), who wanted the right to vote as well as equal legal rights. Some scholars believe that 1848 event was the start of the women's movement. It certainly started what became a long battle for suffrage (the right to vote), as well as for more rights for married women, and better access to education for girls. Women in the US did not get the right to vote till 1920, although in a few individual states, the ability to vote in local elections, plus some other rights, were given as early as the 1870s and 1880s. Property rights, better access to education, and other issues of discrimination were not really addressed till the second wave of the women's movement, which began in the 1960s.
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∙ 14y agothe women's rights started in 1848 when they sence falls accord
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∙ 15y agoThe campaign for women's rights - initially primarily for proper secondary (high school) education - started on a small scale in the U.S, Britain and some of the German states around 1840.
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∙ 14y agothe first women's right convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848...hope that answers your question
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∙ 14y agoIf you mean the right to vote it was with the 19th amendment in the 1920's.
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∙ 12y ago19 amendment
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