Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, 1870 Outspoken suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton (left) and Susan B. Anthony (right) were veteran reformers who advocated, among other things, better working conditions for labor, married women’s property rights, liberalization of divorce laws, and women’s admission into colleges and trade schools. Their passion for other causes led some conservatives to oppose women’s political rights because they equated the suffragist cause with radicalism in general. ©Bettmann/Corbis.