Throughout the nineteenth century, debates about the rights of women echoed loudly across Europe, North America, and beyond. Among the most well-known and eloquent appeals for these rights came from the American feminist leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) in an 1892 address to a U.S. congressional committee. She was urging then, as she had for decades, an amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote. That effort was finally successful in 1920, almost two decades after Stanton died.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton