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ted. To those who received no education, the government or organization would hire volunteers to be part-time teachers to reeducate them. 1. Self-awareness It was the Human Right Movement that caused American women’s awareness. In the bourgeois revolution, bourgeois idea was widely spread. Many people were attracted by it and joined the revolution. The idea was personal rights. They fought for equality between nobles and the common people, white and black. They asked for no difference. They fought for the independence of their country and believed in the Declaration of Independence. During those movements, American women noticed that even though they contributed to equality and the revolution went to a successful end, the black won their citizen rights and voting rights, but it was very ironic that they still did not have equal rights as men did. They began to ask “why” and think about “why”. They were adults, healthy, clever, but they could not vote for an official they really appreciated. They did the same work as men, but they were paid lower than men. They grew up with their male friends, neighbors, or brothers shared the same air, culture, food, but when they were old enough, those males could enter school to get education, but they could not. They took care of the big family, husband, children, garden, pets and did lots of housework, and they did feel tired, but when the drunk husbands came back, they should show their tender and smiles to them, listened to their complains, served their needs. Women did so well; they still had to face violence from the men. Why? There was a big“?” in their minds. The advocate from human rights told them to pursue freedom, equality, and rights. Another advocate from men told them “go back to your home, love your husband, and help him.” Those extremely different advocates made them understand they were the exception from Human Rights. So as the follower of human rights, American women stood up, went together and developed feminists to struggle for their citizen rights. Meeting at Seneca Fall, New York, in 1848, a group of women issued a declaration written by Elizabeth Cady Station stating “all men and women are created equal, endowed with the same inalienable rights.” The declaration, much like the Declaration of Independence on which it was modeled, and then presented a long list of violations of rights, including the denial to women of citizenship rights and suffrage. The Seneca Fall convention began the social movement by which women finally won the right to vote in 1920. There were other famous leaders in Women’s Movement such as Charlotte Gilman. She pointed out the reason why women were looked down upon was“economy” in her book Women and the Economy. Women had to make their lives by relying on the men, without their supports, they would die for lacking in money. So she persuaded her mates to be independent in economy, and then they could be independent people. Only after then, the men would admit women’s social status, women’s value, and only after then, the society would show its respect to them. Feminists believed in her words, and later there came a movement for jobs, and it was exactly because of this that the number of career women was increasing which we described as “economy”. All of their contributions, finally, helped American women wake up and evaluate their value. They began to go out from the house, receive education, take jobs, and earn money. They showed to the society tha