Title: Equal rights for women — a history | Haywood History | themountaineer.com
Headings: Equal rights for women — a history
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Equal rights for women — a history
Competing issues
The movement splits
Amendment passes
Equal Rights Amendment
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Content: One faction focused on passing a national suffrage amendment, while the other concentrated on getting the vote one state at a time. Amendment passes
In the latter part of the 19th century things started to change. A wife could keep her own paycheck in most states. More colleges opened their doors to women, and many started to work outside the home. Temperance movement leaders realized that without the vote they were going to get nowhere on their main issue, so they joined the suffrage cause. By 1900, four western states had given women the vote, and a majority of American men and women supported female suffrage. More than 1.5 million women entered the workforce during World War I, becoming more independent economically and socially, and more active politically. Militant suffrage groups organized continuous picketing of the White House, resulting in hundreds of arrests. When some of those jailed went on a hunger strike they were force-fed using rubber tubes; the resulting negative publicity created even more sympathy for the cause.