Women activists who pushed boundaries and helped equate gender

3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist and was a prominent leader in the early woman's movement. She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association for 20 years, working with her colleague Susan B. Anthony.

Stanton with help from other held the Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848. There the “Declaration of Sentiments” was drafted and pushed for women being able to vote.

In 1868, Stanton and Anthony worked on the Revolution. They then created the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in 1869. In 1890 they merged with another suffrage organization to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Stanton was a fervent activist and worked toward an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to give women voting power. Stanton and Anthony also wrote the first three volumes of The History of Woman Suffrage (1881–1886).

Stanton also fought against organized religion denying women their full rights. Along with her daughter, Harriet Stanton Blatch, she published, The Woman's Bible, the first volume appearing in 1895 and the second in 1898, according to Biography.com