Lucy Stone. When the deadline for ratification came in 1982, the ERA was just three states short of the 38 needed to write it into the U.S. constitution. However, a few women were able to land leading roles in movies like "Twister," and "Pretty Woman." She was elected to the Senate, which was the first time any First Lady had continued to be so active in politics after her husband's term of office had ended. Such a federal law, it was argued, would ensure that “Men and women have equal rights throughout the United States.” A constitutional amendment would apply uniformly, regardless of where a person lived. Controversial for some, natural for others. But Elizabeth Cady Stanton proved prophetic once again. The First Women’s Rights Convention Laws 200 years ago excluded women generally from public life. 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The Feminine Mystique evolved out of a survey she had conducted for her 20-year college reunion. The move reverses the 1994 rule that prohibited women from serving in combat. As the women set about preparing for the event, Elizabeth Cady Stanton used the Declaration of Independence as the framework for writing what she titled a “Declaration of Sentiments.” In what proved to be a brilliant move, Stanton connected the nascent campaign for women’s rights directly to that powerful American symbol of liberty. The staggering changes for women that have come about over those seven generations in family life, in religion, in government, in employment, in education – these changes did not just happen spontaneously. Consequently, after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, many European countries also saw healthy economic growth rates. Women’s reproductive rights. Throughout 1998, events celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Women’s Rights Movement are looking at the massive changes these women set in motion when they daringly agreed to convene the world’s first Women’s Rights Convention. Stanton’s version read, “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. 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