“Women in Politics” article sent to The Boston Globe, July 25, 1919

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“Women in Politics” article sent to The Boston Globe, July 25, 1919

On July 27, 1919, prominent Massachusetts women, including Mount Holyoke President Mary Woolley, were published in the Boston Globe feature “Sister is Primping for the Ballot Box Party” to explain what they thought would happen when women secured the vote. By June 1919, the Nineteenth Amendment had already passed through the House and Senate and its future was in the hands of the states; Massachusetts was the eighth to ratify on June 25. Although women’s suffrage would not become law until August 1920, Woolley presumably wrote this article in July 1919 in defense of states which had already ratified and to encourage other states to follow suit. Expecting that with the right preparation, women would be better suited to politics than men, Woolley opined “[t]here is no reason why Massachusetts women should not be ready for their new responsibility and privilege of citizenship.”

Mary Woolley

Boston Globe

July 25, 1919

Newspaper

English

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