Martha Carey Thomas was the second president of Bryn Mawr College from 1894 until 1922. In this address, she argues for financial and social equality for women. Thomas discusses the increasing presence of women in the workplace and that without the…
Frederick Pethick Lawrence was a politician married to suffragist Emmeline Pethick. He became involved in the Labour Party and the Women's Social and Political Union.
In this article, Pethick Lawrence discusses the disparity in women's wages and…
Official program for the 25th anniversary and convention of the National Women's Trade Union League of America, held at the Grace Dodge Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Series of statements about where women go during the day, including children's school, grocery store, buying clothes, and looking for employment, and how those places are under some type of political control. The final question is: "Who controls…
Series of questions "all settled by politics and votes." The questions concerned issues that were considered of direct interest to women, including food safety regulation, education, child labor, protective labor legislation, mother's pensions, etc.
Contains twelve reasons why women should have the right to vote. This broadside was reprinted and distributed by many state organizations to lobby for state suffrage amendments.
Article written by author identified only as "F.R.S." The author discusses the idea that women are indifferent to voting because of the expanded employment opportunities open to them and the fact that homemakers do not desire the vote.
Reprint of an essay written by social reformer and political activist, Florence Kelley. Kelley argues that women need the right to vote in order to protect the interests of working women and children.
Reprint of an essay written by Raymond Vincent Phelan. Phelan argues that wage-earning women need to be a part of the labor unions and the right to vote to give them the power to protect their interests.