SEC Launches Probe of Pre-IPO Tech Stock Sales Transactions. What started as an action against a single company in late June has evolved into a probe of an entire industry.
Women's Rights Movements. The American women's rights movement is usually dated from the convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848 to discuss the Social, Civil, and Religious Condition of Woman..
Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to voteâa right known as woman suffrage.At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote.uffrage Movement Gets Organized. It was not until 1848 that the movement for womenâs rights began to organize at the national level. In July of that year, reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first womenâs rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York (where Stanton lived).