| American abolitionist and feminist Lucretia Coffin Mott helped establish the women’s rights movement in the United States in the 1800s. Mott first worked as a teacher at a boarding school near Poughkeepsie, New York, where she was paid half of what was earned by the male instructors performing the same job. Barred as a woman from an international antislavery convention in London, England, Mott recognized that sex discrimination limited her power to speak effectively on public issues. As a result Mott and fellow reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. |
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