| 1900 | R | R | R | | We 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. | |
| 1904 | R | R | R | | | |
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| 1913 | D | D | D | | | Women's suffrage march takes place in DC |
| 1916 | D | D | D | We 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. | |
| 1917 | D | D | D | | | Women gain right to vote in New York State |
| 1919 | D | R | R | | | 19th Amendment passes Congress. |
| 1920 | D | R | R | We 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 |
| 1924 | R | R | R | We 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. | | |
| 1925 | R | R | R | | | First women elected governor |
| 1928 | R | R | R | We 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. | |
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| 1936 | D | D | D | | We are opposed to legislation which discriminates against women in Federal and State employment. | |
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| 1972 | R | D | D | Appointment of women to positions of top responsibility in all branches of the federal government to achieve all equitable ratio of women and men. Such positions include Cabinet members, agency and division heads and Supreme Court Justices; inclusion of women advisors in equitable ratios on all government studies, commissions and hearings | Recommended and supported passage of Title IX of the Higher Education Act opposing discrimination against women in educational institutions | Shirley Chisholm announces run for Presidency |
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| 1980 | D | D | D | Special attention must be paid to the employment needs of women. Today, women who can find work earn, on average, only fifty-nine cents for every dollar earned by men. | We support equal rights and equal opportunities for women, without taking away traditional rights of women such as exemption from the military draft. We support the enforcement of all equal opportunity laws and urge the elimination of discrimination against women. We oppose any move which would give the federal government more power over families. | |
| 1984 | R | D | R | | Participation by women in policy-making is a strong commitment by the Republican Party and by President Reagan. He pledged to appoint a woman to the United States Supreme Court. His promise was not made lightly; and when a vacancy occurred, he quickly filled it with the eminently qualified Sandra Day O'Connor of Arizona. | |
| 1988 | R | D | D | WE BELIEVE that Government should set the standard in recognizing that worker productivity is enhanced by the principle of pay equity for working women | We renew our historic commitment to equal rights for women. The Republican Party pioneered the right of women to vote and initiated the rights now embodied in the Equal Pay Act, requiring equal pay for equal work. | |
| 1992 | R | D | D | | We renew the historic Republican commitment to the rights of women, from the early days of the suffragist movement to the present. Because legal rights mean little without opportunity, we assert economic growth as the key to the continued progress of women in all fields of American life. | |
| 1996 | D | R | R | The Violence Against Women Act in the 1994 Crime Bill helps police officers, prosecutors, and judges to understand domestic violence, recognize it when they see it, and know how to deal with it. | We renew our historic Republican commitment to equal opportunity for women. In the early days of the suffragist movement, we pioneered the women's right to vote. We take pride in this year's remarkable array of Republican women serving in and running for office and their role in leadership positions in our party, in Congress, and in the states. Two women serve in our House Leadership - a record untouched by the Democrats during their 40 years in power. The full exercise of legal rights depends upon opportunity, and economic growth is the key to continuing progress for women in all fields of endeavor. Public policy must respect and accommodate women whether they are full-time homemakers or pursue a career. | |
| 2000 | R | R | R | We must make a special effort to help women and children in societies that are devastated by war, disease and poverty. Women are traditionally the backbone of the family. We must also make a special effort to hear women when they rise up courageously to resist or end war in their communities. They are in a sense the front lines - the first affected - by the horrors of war and the misery of disease and poverty. We demand the United States Congress pass the Convention to Eliminate all forms of Discrimination Against Women which has been consistently blocked by the Republican Senate. | | |
| 2004 | R | R | R | | | |
| 2008 | R | D | D | When women still earn 76 cents for every dollar that a man earns, it doesn't just hurt women; it hurts families and children. We will pass the "Lilly Ledbetter" Act, which will make it easier to combat pay discrimination; we will pass the Fair Pay Act; and we will modernize the Equal Pay Act. We will invest in women-owned small businesses and remove the capital gains tax on startup small businesses. | | |
| 2012 | D | R | D | We Democrats will continue to support efforts to ensure that workers can combat gender discrimination in the workplace and to protect women against pregnancy discrimination. And that's why we support passing the Healthy Families Act, broadening the Family and Medical Leave Act, and partnering with states to move toward paid leave. | | |
| 2016 | D | R | R | We will fight to secure equal pay for women, which will benefit all women and their families, particularly women of color who are disproportionately impacted by discriminatory pay practices, and against other factors that contribute to the wage gap. And we will combat the discrimination they face on and off the job. While Donald Trump thinks it is "dangerous" for women to leave the home and paid family leave hurts our economy, Democrats will make sure that the United States finally enacts national paid family and medical leave by passing a family and medical leave act that would provide all workers at least 12 weeks of paid leave to care for a new child or address a personal or family member's serious health issue. | | |
| 2020 | R | D | R | We will take aggressive action to end pay inequality, including by increasing penalties against companies that discriminate against women and passing the Paycheck Fairness Act. Democrats are committed to ending sexual assault, domestic abuse, and other violence against women, including the epidemics of violence against Native American women and transgender women of color. | | |
| 2024 | D | R | D | There is more work to do. Democrats will work to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act and end pay inequity not just in the federal workforce, but throughout the economy with penalties for companies that discriminate against women. | | |
