In the beginning...

While reading for my history class this morning, I came across the chapter summary for Women's Rights :

Women's Rights Activists
Putting their religious ideas into practice, women constituted the core membership of most reform groups, such as peace, temperance, and antislavery societies. Their participation taught them basic political skills, and in 1848, the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized an independent movement for women's rights. They launched their campaign at a convention at Seneca Falls, New York. The Declaration of Sentiments issued by this gathering charged that history was fraught with male abuse of women and that the goal of such injury was "the establishment of an absolute tyranny" over women. The Declaration went on to demand universal female suffrage. Although it was ridiculed, the manifesto laid the foundation for the women's rights movement. 

I thought this was pretty interesting. I haven't read much about womens rights in my history class, so I look at this as the beginning.