The beginning of the Seneca Falls Declaration mimics the introduction to the Declaration of Independence in saying that all men (and women) are created equal and some specific clauses and oppositions to that statement.
They go on to create a list of grievances, specifically citing things that man has done to womankind, which continues to follow the format of the Declaration of Independence. These grievances include their rights to citizenship and property, and citing the specific differences between the treatment of men and women in American society, by both the public and the government. It includes both Church and state, showing that woman is given a subordinate position in both. The last grievance is more social and general, referring to the respect that women procure.
The Declaration next says that women should immediately be given all the rights that they are owed by the government. The next paragraph even states that they understand the difficulty of this process and the ridicule that they will unrightfully earn.
The last section contains a number of resolutions that the convention hoped to achieve, or claimed to already be true. The equality of men and women is the only central theme to these resolutions, for they involve equality in church, state, and society in general.
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