What About the Ladies?

These photographs and documents represent the women's rights movement throughout Ohio. Women worked tirelessly to gain equal rights through petitioning their government, writing letters, holding conventions and rallies. It wasn't until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution that was ratified on August 18, 1920 that women were finally given the right to vote.One would think that after women gained the right to vote everything would be equal among the sexes.The struggle did not end here. Women still fought for many years to achieve equal rights.As late as 1942, women only had the right to sit on a jury in twenty-eight states.  It wasn't until 1957 that they were guaranteed the right to sit on federal juries.In 1973 they were finally given the right to sit on all juries in all fifty states.