Women's Rights

with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gage helped found the National Woman's Suffrage Association in 1869; served as a top officer in the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) for twenty years; her childhood home was a stop on the Underground Railroad; wrote about the superior position of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women and supported treaty rights and Native sovereignty; influenced by the Haudenosaunee egalitarian culture; is the eponym for the Matilda effect, which describes the tendency to deny women credit for scientific invention; 1878–1881 published and edited the National Citizen, a paper devoted to the cause of women; with Anthony & Stanton wrote the first three volumes of History of Woman Suffrage (1881–1887); also was the author of the Woman's Rights Catechism (1868); Woman as Inventor (1870) (;in which she credited Catherine Littlefield Greene with the invention of the cotton gin) Who Planned the Tennessee Campaign (1880); and Woman, Church and State (1893); broke with NWSA & founded founded the Woman's National Liberal Union when her ideas became too radical for NWSA; along with twenty-four other women composed The Woman’s Bible in 1895; with Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the “Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States,” which became an official part of the proceedings of the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876; 1880 with other activists formed the Equal Rights Party;

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Politics

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