BALANCE IN MARRIAGE Part 2

In the 19th century, there was a full spectrum of marriages from ones where the wives were literally servants, needing to account for every minute of their time and little more than sexual slaves, to husbands like Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s who were loving and supportive, a real partner to thei...r wives in every sense of the word.The suffragists, who knew they were fortunate in their lives, were fighting for the improvement of the lives of the “marriage slaves” or others only slightly better off. They were fighting for the right of women to make decisions about their own lives, not just the right to vote.