This paper studies the woman suffrage movement and the opposition it faced. The paper outlines the changing societal roles
and expectation that brought about the campaign to extend the right to vote to women: (1) the
perception that the woman's role was exclusively to attend to the family, (2) the perception that extending the right to vote would be a slippery slope and (3) the perception that men were more intelligent -- and therefore better able to cast votes. Next, the paper
discusses the leadership and activity of the leaders of the suffrage movement: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The paper then turns to the actions and involvement of more radical female suffragettes, including Chapman Catt and Maud Wood Park. The paper concludes with an analysis of oppositional forces, and discusses how these forces continue to be echoed among some right wing conservative groups today.