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 two 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), the Business and Professional Women of Hamilton,
Fulton, and Montgomery Counties (BPW), Soroptimist International of
Fulton County, the YWCA Adirondack Foothills, 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 second 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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