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Why Did Women Fight for the Vote?
Women fought long and hard for the franchise -- the right to vote -- for a multitude of reasons. Many suffragists argued that the right to vote should be universal and that it was unjust to bar American women from the polls. They also argued that women's inability to vote resulted in tangible economic, political, and social harm to them, their families, and their communities.
This section features a few of the countless stories from women whose lives were affected by their inability to vote. The arguments that suffragists made for women's enfranchisement reveal their belief that it was an essential tool for protecting their well-being as well as achieving what they saw as women's fundamental rights as citizens. |