ABSTRACT
Congress did not equalize citizenship rights until 1934. By the time the Equal Rights Amendment passed both houses of Congress by the required two-thirds majorities in 1972, supporters believed that women's equality had achieved the same "bygone conclusion" status as suffrage had. In polls, more than 90 percent of Americans agree that the Constitution should include equal rights for men and women. After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it. Within months of the Seneca Falls meeting, women's rights conventions were held in other cities, beginning in Rochester, New York. Three generations of women joined the cause, each believing that theirs would be the final effort required to convince enough state and federal legislators that women deserved and required political representation.
