D.retreating to one’s own “corner.”
I don't know what declaration you're talking about, but women would complain that they're deprived of rights to work, their rights as citizens, etc. They would work hard to get the rights they felt they were deprived of and deserved.
The suffrage movement was part of this wave of Progressive Era reforms. Prominent suffragists led other progressive causes as well. ... By turning women's traditional social roles into public and political ones, this generation of reformers began to win broader support for women's votes.
I want to say entrepreneurship, but there's also free economy enterprise, so... I'm gonna go with entrepreneurship.