don, women were refused seats until all the men had found one. Since this was the first overtly public movement in which American women participated in, men were unaware of their abilities and doubted their intelligence. However, this did not discourage women, it was at this convention that Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Mott met. These women later became the leaders of the women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls made their connections. (Lunardini 32-37). The temperance and abolition movements are relevant to the women’s fight for equality because it gave them the knowledge, experience, and connections they needed in order to organize a productive outcome later on. “…female abolitionists gained experience that they and the other women would later draw on in mobilizing for…their own rights…women learned the basic procedures of public mobilization: drawing up a constitution and bylaws, electing officers, speaking before groups, taking votes, organizing committees, and planning collective actions.” (Lunardini 37). Without this prior knowledge the fight for women’s rights may not have been as successful.Women now not only wanted to be educated, protected from pregnancy , andsober, they wanted to earn their own money. A wave of independence swept over women like cool breeze on a hot summer day, only this breeze never ceased. Both men and women entered the depths of the workplace, but to the despair of many they again found discrimination. It is true that many women found jobs, but worked for salaries far beneath what was fair. Women attempted to fight for equal pay and labor, but they were unsuccessful. This was evident in the case of the Lowell Mill Girls. These diligent workers went on strike protesting against cut backs in pay by fifteen percent for the same work load. As wishful as this protest my have been, the workers returned to the mill that Monday with out so mu...
