Women’s Rights

Women’s Rights

YearPres.HouseSenateDemocratsRepublicans
1900RRRWe congratulate the women of America upon their splendid record of public service in the volunteer aid association and as nurses in camp and hospital during the recent campaigns of our armies in the East and West Indies, and we appreciate their faithful co-operation in all works of education and industry.
1904RRR
1908RRR
1912RDR
1913DDDWomen’s suffrage march takes place in DC
1916DDDWe recommend the extension of the franchise to the women of the country by the States upon the same terms as to men.The Republican party, reaffirming its faith in government of the people, by the people, for the people, as a measure of justice to one-half the adult people of this country, favors the extension of the suffrage to women, but recognizes the right of each state to settle this question for itself.
1917DDDWomen gain right to vote in New York State
1919DRR19th Amendment passes Congress.
1920DRRWe endorse the proposed 19th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States granting equal suffrage to women.We advocate, in addition, the independent naturalization of married women. An American woman, resident in the United States, should not lose her citizenship by marriage to an alien. . . We welcome women into full participation in the affairs of government and the activities of the Republican Party.Women gain right to vote
1924RRRWe welcome the women of the nation to their rightful place by the side of men in the control of the government whose burdens they have always shared.
1925RRRFirst women elected
governor
1928RRRWe declare for equality of women with men in all political and governmental matters.We earnestly urge on the women that they participate even more generally than now in party management and activity.
1932RRR
1936DDDWe are opposed to legislation which discriminates against women in Federal and State employment.
1940DDD
1944DDD
1948DRR
1952DDD
1956RDD
1960RDD
1964DDD
1968DDD