USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first women jurors began their service in March or April of 1870.

Detailed explanation-2: -When the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920, some states allowed women jurors. Although women were first admitted to practice law in Florida in the late 1890s, it was not until 1949 that Florida allowed women to volunteer for jury service.

Detailed explanation-3: -Eliza Stewart Boyd (September 8, 1833 in Crawford County, Pennsylvania – March 9, 1912 in Laramie, Wyoming) was the first woman in America ever selected to serve on a jury. In March 1870, her name was drawn from the voters’ roll to serve on the grand jury to be convened later that month.

Detailed explanation-4: -The movement begins In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first convention regarding women’s rights in the United States. Called the Seneca Falls Convention, the event in Seneca Falls, New York, drew over 300 people, mostly women.

Detailed explanation-5: -Women did not have the power to make contracts, own property or vote. A woman was seen merely as a servant to her husband. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, that began to change when many bold, outspoken women championed social reforms of prisons, war, alcohol and slavery.