Existing comment:
Becoming a cross-class cause
By 1910, a majority of American women worked for pay at some point in their lives. As working women came to view the vote as a significant tool for protecting them in the workplace, the ranks of suffragists swelled. Often identified with the middle class, the struggle for woman suffrage grew into a mass movement supported by women from backgrounds as diverse as the occupations listed on this 1913 petition. |