Imagine this, you are a 1900s woman full of life and enthusiasm, you see a group of people arguing about something and you have something to say about the topic. They tell you to go home and take care of the kids, that you're not smart enough to know anything. This was the life the women lived on a daily basis. Women were considered sub-creations, too stupid to think for themselves and that's why they needed men to control every aspect of their lives. women not only had no say in politics, but they didn't even have education, the right to work, they couldn't even have control over their own bodies. Women fought not only for the right to vote but also for the right to be considered equal to men; The 19th Amendment paved the way for movements that would change the nation forever like the roots in the tree of equality. Women didn't get the right to vote overnight, it took them 66 years of struggle to win the vote. After years of rigid limitations not only from men but from society as a whole, the time had come for women to change. The call for enfranchisement was first made at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 (Grolier 2). “Women organized, petitioned and issued [picketed] tickets to gain the right to vote. But it took them decades to achieve their goal” (“19th Amendment”). the women did all this while “opponents harassed them, imprisoned them, and sometimes physically abused them” (“19th Amendment”). At times, when imprisoned suffragists fasted to prove their point and were brutally force-fed, “many used the hunger strike as a political tool…the government responded with force-feeding” (“Force-Feeding”). Suffragettes underestimated how difficult it would be to become socially equal to men because men had access to a higher level… middle of the paper… than the United States Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920).”Ourdocuments .gov ., n.d. Web. May 8, 2014. “Force-feeding of starving suffragettes.” Times Higher Education, April 29, 1996. Web, May 21, 2014. “Marriage in 1900.” Google, n.d. Web . 22 May 2014. "Women's Jobs in the 1900s." Women in the Workplace, nd Web. 22 May 2014. Grolier of Women's Suffrage |. Scholastic.com Scholastic, nd Web. 9 May 2014. "History of Women's Suffrage ". Notable American Women 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. 1971Kathleen, Barry. “Susan B. Anthony: A Bibliography”. New York and London. New York University Press. 1998. print