“WE have the fifty-four-hour law, the minimum wage commission, the prohibition of night-work in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits in Indiana, Nebraska, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania, although women do not vote in these States. An electorate of men has created the best body of remedial and protective legislation for the working woman in response to the need for such legislation made manifest by economic and industrial conditions. It has yet to be shown that women electors as a body in any one double-suffrage State have evolved policies unknown to any other single man-suffrage State and distinct from the normal trend of present-day progress in which men and women play their part. Not until such showing can be made should the ballot be given women as a means of social efficiency.”
— Mrs. A.J. George, The Women’s Protest. April, 1916
Thanks for visiting!
