womenshistory.about.com). It was here that she learned to become a skilled debater (ibid). She went on to attend the Troy Female Seminary in New York (ibid). It was one of the first universities to offer an education equal to that of male academies (ibid). While at Troy, she studied logic, physiology, and natural rights philosophy (www.teacherlink.ed.usu.edu). After graduation, she began to work for her father who was a judge and a lawyer (ibid). Here she saw first hand the legal discrimination women faced every day (ibid). After that, she enjoyed her newfound freedom and leisure and traveled, meeting many of the abolitionists of her day and women with ideas the same as hers on attaining gender equality (www.womenshistory.about.com). She met Lucretia Mott, a Philadelphia Quaker with revolutionary ideas similar to hers, and together they traveled to London to attend an international abolitionist meeting (ibid). There, she met the young abolitionist lawyer Henry Brewster Stanton and soon they were married (ibid). That just shows you that Elizabeth's childhood wasn't easy; she had to work hard for what she was about to become.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is known as a very important women's activist that helped women acquire the right to vote. Elizabeth started to speak out on women's rights, and eventually at age 33 organized a group of allies, both men and women, scheduled the Women's Rights Convention in her new family hometown of Seneca Falls, New York .
(www.nps.gov). The world would never be the same again for women. At that convention, she was recognized as the founder and first president of the Woman's Suffrage Organization in America (ibid). At the convention, the leaders planned to speak on a list of grievances based on the Declaration of Independence denouncing unfairness in property rights, education, employment, marriage, and family (www.womenshistory.about.com). Elizabeth was selected to speak on the most radical and controversial reform of all which stated, that it is the duty of women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to vote (www.
