How World War I strengthened women’s suffrage

Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 13:00 in Psychology & Sociology

While American women had been fighting for the right to vote for decades prior to the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920, it was not until World War I that their cause for political independence regained momentum, says Stanford legal scholar Pamela S. Karlan. As women filled jobs vacated by men fighting the […]

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