As we go about our daily lives, not many of us think about the rights and priveledges that we enjoy as American women of the 21st century. Legal rights did not exist for women when colonists first come over from Europe countries in face, at that time, women existed in a condition referred to as “civildeath”. By July 1848 when the first women’s rights conventions was held in Seneca Falls, New York (today the home of the National Women’s Hall of Fame), women could not vote, married women could not own property, women didn’t have access to education, and women could not be awarded custody of their children in the case of divorce.
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