versation the women set up a date for their convention on women's rights. The gathering would take place at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls on July 19 and 20, 1848. These are some of the points discussed in the meeting:
             · Married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law
             · Women were not allowed to vote
             · Women had to submit to laws when they had no voice in their formation
             · Married women had no property rights
             · Husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity
             · Divorce and child custody laws favored men, giving no rights to women
             · Women had to pay property taxes although they had no representation in the levying of these taxes
             · Most occupations were closed to women and when women did work they were paid only a fraction of what men earned
             · Women were not allowed to enter professions such as medicine or law
             · Women had no means to gain an education since no college or university would accept women students
             · With only a few exceptions, women were not allowed to participate in the affairs of the church
             · Women were robbed of their self-confidence and self-respect, and were made totally dependent on men
             So it's clear that, contrary to common misconception, the Women's Rights Movement did not begin in the 1960s. What occurred in the 1960s was actually a second wave of activism that washed into the public consciousness, fueled by several independent events of that turbulent decade. Each of these events brought a different segment of the population into the movement.
             First: Esther Peterson was the director of the Women's Bureau of the Dept. of Labor in 1961. She considered it to be the government's responsibility to take an active role in addressing discrimination ag
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