About the Symposium
WHEN WOMEN GET TOGETHER, WONDERFUL THINGS HAPPEN!
In 1848, the Declaration of Sentiments was presented at Seneca Falls, New York. Its author, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, modeled it after the Declaration of
Independence to throw into sharp relief the failure of a nation, founded on the principles of democracy and equality, to live up to its ideals and to challenge that nation
to give women all the rights and responsibilities to which they were entitled.
One hundred and sixty years have passed since that first Women’s Rights Convention. Thanks to the dreams, hard work, persistence, and leadership of women like
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, we have had far more opportunities in all areas of our lives than our mothers and grandmothers. But, Stanton’s wish for our “immediate
admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to [us] as citizens of these United States” has not been fully realized.
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women’s Symposium was first held four years ago in Johnstown to continue the work of that city’s most famous daughter. An outcome
of the 2006 Symposium was the creation of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women’s Consortium by the Amsterdam-Johnstown-Gloversville branch of the American
Association of University of Women (AAUW), Soroptimist International of Fulton County, the Women Democrats, the Women’s Republican Club of Fulton County,
and women faculty of Fulton-Montgomery Community College (FMCC).
The Consortium welcomes all women to the third Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women’s Symposium to meet for a day of workshops, talks, and socializing. By sharing
our knowledge and experiences as well as developing social and professional networks, we continue along the path Stanton and others made possible for us to walk.
As Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others have shown, wonderful things happen when women get together.
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