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..
The first Women's Rights convention took place at Seneca Falls in 1848, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The movement was directed mainly by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her friend Susan B. Anthony for most of the rest of the 19th century. Other early feminists included the remarkable Grimke sisters, who were ardent abolitionists and campaigners for women's rights as well.