Answer:
✔- every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in religion, in everything is the lot of the woman.
✔ Now there are women ministers, east and west, all over the country.
Explanation:
The above are the two purposes of the two excerpts.
In the first excerpt, Lucy Stone points out what women are passing through. She points out the disappointment that many women are passing through. They were not allowed to get meaningful job in the country.
In the second excerpt, the same speaker was able to reveal the progress that was made after 50 years. It was discovered that women began to take up positions.
