As I read the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, a few things stuck out at me. One being that it starts out saying “that man shall pursue his own true and substantial happiness”. This to me states that man should be happy, not even thinking about the women. History states that men have withheld all rights from women and were given to men that were ignorant, both foreigners and natives. Men did this when they married the woman; they then made them civilly dead. The man also took all the property that belongs to her along with the wages she earned. He did not allow her to continue education, so that means that college was out of the question for her. Men thought of women as the bearers of their children and thought that they should be home raising the children, cooking and cleaning the house.
Later on it then brings in the importance of women in the society. One states that laws that are preventing the women from occupying such a high place in society should be removed from the books. It’s saying that all the laws that do not allow women to be a part of higher positions should be demolished. Women should be able to have higher positions because it says that Woman are man’s equal, this means that women and men should be treated the same. If you look at that way women are treated now-a-days, they are treated well, but they are also not paid as much. It is also stated that men need to encourage women to speak and teach what they know.