 She and Stevens presented a plea for the Pan-American Union to recommend that all member states enfranchise women as a means of promoting world peace.Unlike Stevens and Alice Paul, Vergara's feminist ideas were influenced by her study of communism and were decidedly leftist.Rather than the idea that the individual was a "fundamental political unit", as the Americans' advocated, Vergara thought that the family was the ideal political unit and worked toward social solidarity through protecting family rights.