It was generally hard for women to have a voice at all before the 1920s. When women did speak up, like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were seen as "crazy" or "out of their minds" for wanting to speak up for change, especially women's suffrage. Women made soap, food, clothing, and candles, they even worked beside men in the fields and hunted with them. It was thought that the house could not function without a woman. But as their trades began to be replaced by factories, while the industrialization of America proceeded, the home became less the “nucleus of life”. Factories took over home trades like weaving and spinning, and women were seen as less valued. During this time, women’s trade and skills became less and less essential to life when they could just be bought, starting the change in how we valued in women. Women at this time weren't even needed as much as before as simple "housewives"
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first major discussion of women’s rights and suffrage that was publicized. Stanton was very passionate about including voting rights in the declaration, but many women and men at the convention were opposed to it. Even Stanton’s husband said, “Why Lizzie, thee will make us ridiculous.” Though Fredrick Douglas supported the idea, by saying that giving women voting rights, would get African Americans closer to being able to vote because they wouldn’t be able to vote until a white woman could. Generally women fought to even have a voice, and once they did, they were not taken seriously. So, events like the Seneca Falls Convention were important milestones for women to unify to make themselves more powerful and their voices stronger.
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