Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly

…profits they founded in 1870 Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, a women’s rights and reform magazine that espoused such causes as a single moral standard for men and women, legalized prostitution, and dress reform. Much of each issue was written by Stephen Pearl Andrews, promoter of the utopian social system he…

…earnings to start a newspaper—Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly—becoming the country’s first female newspaper publishers. (A trend is forming.) In January 1871 Woodhull became the first woman to address Congress, arguing that the 14th Amendment already granted women the right to vote.