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Though ratification of the 19th Amendment 16 months ago marked a major advance for women’s rights, winning the vote can only be a stepping stone on the path to total equality. As the National Woman’s Party’s founder, Alice Paul, noted on the day Tennessee’s ratification assured victory for the suffrage amendment: “With their power to vote achieved, women still have before them the task of supplementing political equality with equality in all other fields.
Among the many prestigious members of the committee who came up with the suggested wording were: Gail Laughlin, who was a full-time activist with the National American Woman Suffrage Association for many years, and was the first president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women, serving from 1919 to 1920; Shippen Lewis, Secretary of the Legal Education Committee of the American Bar Association; Matthew Hale, former National Chairman of the Progressive Party; and George...
George Gordon battle thinks the time is right for this next step on the road to equality: “Undoubtedly such an amendment is required by the preponderant force of moral sentiment and by the progressive tendency of the times.” But Frank Walsh, former Joint Chairman of the War Labor Board and legal counsel for many labor organizations, said: “The political, civil and legal disabilities and inequalities leveled against woman, on the sole ground of sex, are so great in number, and so deeply engrafted in our legal structure by national and State statutes, as well as by court decisions, that I can see no way of approximating justice as affecting the sexes, except by passage of such an amendment as your organization has...
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