According to the book The Susan B. Anthony Women's Voting Rights Trial, many people thought women did not need rights because their only purpose was to give birth, raise children, and run a household. in 1980 an article was published by the Pittsburgh magazine that responsibilities of a women did not include politics or voting. "A women in politics is like a monkey in a china shop; she can do no good and may do a great deal of harm". American women during this time had little to no rights: 

• couldn't attend college or university, because would not accept female students.

• women are not allowed to speak in public and if they did people called it indecent behavior 

• could not work unless in nursing and teaching for middle class women, and in unskilled labor.

• when working outside of home women made much less money than men did.

• Women could not serve the jury or even testify. 

According the book The Susan B. Anthony women's voting right trial marrried women had many restrictions they could not divorse husban, unless their husban ask for the divorce and if divorced they do not custody of their children, and if the wife made any money, the women would have to give some of the little money they earned to them. Married women's clothes was not even considered their own. Once married the women gave up all legal rights and property and the husband hal legal power over their wives. Women were peactically properties if married of their husand, if unmarried of their fathers. In anothr database THE STATUS OF WOMAN, PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE it mentions how women had to at one point het married eather with or without love because of support.If a women was not married and her parents had dies would have to live in a home of there siblings, when a women would not want to get married and parents were still living they would see it as a sign of dispespect, women couls work for 8 or more hours a day every day but would not have enough money to support themself also with very little job oppertunities.