What if women didn't have the same rights as everyone else? What if there was a stereotype that women had to follow? Should a wife stay at home and take care of the children while her husband is out working? These are all questions that women asked during the Women's Suffrage Movement. At the beginning of this movement, women did not have the same rights as their husbands or other men. Women were expected to follow the stereotype of being teachers or nurses and once married to stay at home, take care of children and keep the house tidy while their husbands went to work. But as women began to break out of their stereotypes, the world slowly began to accept that women and their environment were changing. The goal for which women fought was to have the same rights as men. In 1923, Alice Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment. “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” It was conceived with the promise of equal rights for women and presented to Congress that same year (“The History Behind”). One of the first public calls for equal rights dates back to 1848. It took place in Seneca Falls, New York, at the first Women's Rights Convention. Three hundred men and women gathered in a two-day meeting called “Justice for Women.” At the time of the meeting the country was not ready to take women's rights seriously. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were two of the most famous women's rights activists. All their lives they fought for constitutional change, demanding women's right to vote. But these extraordinary women both died before they could cast their legal vote (“The History Behind”). During the...... half of the paper....... Web. April 2, 2014. "Timeline: Women in the U.S. Army." .“History of the United States” Ema J. Lapsansky-Werner, Peter B. Levy, Randy Roberts and Alan Taylor. Reconstruction of the history of the United States in the present. Pearson, 2010. Wikipedia on “War in Afghanistan”. Wikimedia Foundation. Network. "Women played a key role in the civil rights movement." Np, October 29, 2005. Web. April 1, 2014. "Women's Rights." Wikipedia The free encyclopedia. Np, 1 April 2014. Web. 1 April. 2014. .