Path Through History: Women's Rights

New Yorkers have long led the struggle for women's rights. Seneca Falls, home to the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848, is considered the birthplace of the women's rights movement. Some of its greatest leaders from Susan B. Anthony to Matilda Joslyn Gage and Elizabeth Cady Stanton did their pioneering work in the Empire State. In passing women's suffrage in 1917, New York fueled the momentum for the entire nation to follow suit three years later.