Whether it was due to the deaths of so many fathers and sons and brothers and uncles and nephews during the First and Second World Wars or Korea or whether it was because so many women were graduating colleges in record numbers – no one would say, but during the fourth decade of women’s suffrage, researchers had discovered that there were more women than men listed on the voting registries. Republican Party executive Clare Williams noted:
“Women now hold the balance of power.”
Click here to read about that moment in 1920 when American Women attained the vote.
