Book/Printed Material Toward equal rights for men and women General Collections copy
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Image 1 of General Collections copy Toward Equal Rights for Men and Women By Ethel M. Smith Published by the COMMITTEE ON THE LEGAL STATUS OF WOMEN NATIONAL LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS 532 Seventeenth Street, Northwest Washington, D.…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 2 of General Collections copy HQ1239 .36 Copy 2 Copyright 1929 by the National League of Women Voters ©CIA 8466 R JUN -4 1979- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 3 of General Collections copy 3 FOREWORD In the following study, Miss Smith has undertaken a difficult task and has accomplished as extraordinarily successful result. She has shown, in an impressive way, the great complexity of undertaking…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 4 of General Collections copy 4 and careful scrutiny. Equality is one principle to be applied in working out the change from what has been and what is to what should be. But no quantitative or mechanical…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 5 of General Collections copy 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS Points of View and Responsibilities 7 ✓ Before Woman Suffrage 11 Using the Vote—The Achievements of Seven Years 13 Re-examining the Problem 18 ✓ I. The Realistic Approach…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 6 of General Collections copy 6 International Issues and Comparisons 87 - Different Concepts of Sex Equality 87 Equal Rights Legislation Abroad 89 Great Britain 90 Denmark 93 Norway 94 Sweden 94 The Netherlands 94 Germany 95…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 7 of General Collections copy 7 POINTS OF VIEW AND RESPONSIBILITIES The woman movement of our time took form in eighteenth-century France and England. This was the France of the Revolution, which was fighting for the “natural…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 8 of General Collections copy 8 But the direct antecedent of freedom is justice, and it must be social justice. Equality is contained in justice, but it is not all of justice, nor is it a fixed…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 9 of General Collections copy 9 to a mere equality, to be always measured and balanced, making sure that neither men nor women had one thing more or less that the other. It left open possibilities for…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 10 of General Collections copy 10 must be flexible, resourceful, versatile. How far is the law a remedy for the injustice we would cure? What is the point at which other remedies apply? Which remedy is best,…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 11 of General Collections copy 11 BEFORE WOMAN SUFFRAGE Nationally, the woman movement found its first organized expression in the demand for woman suffrage. 1 But by this time nearly half the nineteenth century had passed, and…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 12 of General Collections copy 12 Nevertheless it could be said, with respect to those particular rights, that the status of women under the law in those particular state was identical with the status of men. Other…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 13 of General Collections copy 13 USING THE VOTE The Achievements of Seven Years These gains, accompanying the state suffrage victories and the federal campaign, and often directly their fruits, marked an obvious line of duty for…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 14 of General Collections copy 14 LEGISLATION SINCE 1920 AFFECTING THE STATUS OF WOMEN 8 Public Rights Citizenship Federal Statue (Cable Act) Eligibility to Public Office Arizona Arkansas Delaware Iowa Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Missouri New Hampshire…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 15 of General Collections copy 15 Private Rights Property Rights of Married Women (Including Inheritance) Arkansas California Connecticut Florida Illinois Missouri New Hampshire New Jersey New York Ohio South Carolina South Dakota Texas Virginia Washington West Virginia…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 16 of General Collections copy 16 Age of Consent Florida Iowa Kentucky Missouri New Hampshire New Jersey North Carolina Ohio South Carolina Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Penalties for Sex Offenses California Florida Maine New Jersey New Mexico…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 17 of General Collections copy 17 Support Kentucky Mississippi Nebraska Virginia West Virginia Mothers’ Aid California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kentucky Minnesota Mississippi Nebraska New Jersey North Carolina Ohio Oregon…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 18 of General Collections copy 18 RE-EXAMINING THE PROBLEM- I. THE REALISTIC APPROACH- The Status of Women Today The effect of these changes in the law accomplished in the last eight and a half years, added to…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 19 of General Collections copy 19 are largely forgotten between times. Had they pinched more severely, or more often, they would have been more widely protested. (c) In many instances no alternative provision has been agreed upon,…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 20 of General Collections copy 20 Obviously, however, not all these laws that differentiate can be held to be discriminatory against women. Some of them have been and are among the chief legislative objectives of women's organizations…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 21 of General Collections copy 21 property system. For reasons partly judicial and partly economic and political, it has been possible to have laws regulating hours of women's labor, or fixing minimum wage standards for women, only…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 22 of General Collections copy 22 citizenship in the United States, nor should a native-born woman who married an alien forfeit her citizenship by reason of such marriage. 10 The principle thus established was an important advance…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 23 of General Collections copy 23 has a constitutional provision which prevents women from holding any of the major state offices, and in Wisconsin women are still ineligible to serve as governor. No dissent will be heard,…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 24 of General Collections copy 24 however, a much mooted question. Is equal representation attained by providing an equal number of representative positions for men and women, a form of equality attained by doubling the number of…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 25 of General Collections copy 25 acceptance of some concrete definition of equal rights under marriage law and family obligation. The worst of the existing disabilities of married women, in respect to all their domestic relations, are…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 26 of General Collections copy 26 estate while he has no reciprocal right in her. But in seven states the common-law rights of dower and curtesy still persist—which is to say, the wife has a right to…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 27 of General Collections copy 27 would never come into court. But what should the just judge say? What should the wife herself claim as her equal and just right? All these questions must be met, it…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 28 of General Collections copy 28 Divorce Twenty-nine states still differentiate in causes for divorce for husband and wife, sometimes in the wife's favor, but more often the reverse. In every state that grants divorce (South Carolina…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 29 of General Collections copy 29 a cause of divorce in many states. 17 But this law applies to wives in only some of the states. 17 Baldwin, William H. Family Desertion and Non-support Laws, a study…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 30 of General Collections copy 30 Courts of domestic relations have to settle such problems. Can they do it on the basis of equality of husband and wife? Do they not, in fact, and must they not,…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 31 of General Collections copy 31 The law of Colorado, 19 for example, and other states have laws that are similar on this point, provides three penalties for rape. First degree rape is defined as intercourse between…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 32 of General Collections copy 32 Public Health and Social Welfare In the last thirty to forty years there has been enacted by the state legislatures a large body of law which is distinctly the product of…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 33 of General Collections copy 33 Here was a direct interference with the personal liberty of working men to make what terms they chose in regard to their labor contract. The state interfered in the interest of…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 34 of General Collections copy 34 as mothers. Again, in the laws prohibiting employment in occupation called dangerous to women, regulating their conditions of work, and providing seats for them, the application is only to women because…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 35 of General Collections copy 35 mothers’ pension or mothers’ aid laws of forty-four states and three territorial jurisdictions. When it comes to the legal prohibition of the employment of women for a specified period before and…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 36 of General Collections copy 36 with children on his hands. For the widower's need is probably not the money the state would be adding to what he can earn. These laws remain, therefore, in all two…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 37 of General Collections copy 37 (b) In most instances such laws exist in but a few states, or only one. (c) In a few instances opinion among women is divided as to justification for the prohibition.…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 38 of General Collections copy 38 Probably these states were protecting women against a moral hazard in forbidding them to enter back stairways and cellars in order to read gas-meters; just as was the intent of another…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 39 of General Collections copy 39 demonstrated by scientific investigation, the law should not interfere. Too often, where it does prohibit, it not only differentiates between men and women, but creates a handicap instead of a genuine…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
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Image 40 of General Collections copy 40 regulations, for the reason that insurance carriers fix the employer's premium rate according to his accident record. 33 It is doubtless because of the spread of workmen's compensation laws that regulations…- Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, Ethel Marion
- Date: 1929
About this Item
Title
- Toward equal rights for men and women
Summary
- The author of this book, which includes a brief introduction by Sophonisba Breckenridge, maintains that an Equal Rights Amendment, such as the one then being proposed by Alice Paul and the Woman's Party, would lead to chaos and confusion. She argues that absolute equality with men would strip away certain forms of protective legislation from which certain groups of women benefit.
Names
- Smith, Ethel Marion, 1877-1951
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : Published by the Committee on the Legal Status of Women, National League of Women Voters, 1929.
Headings
- - Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States
- - Women's rights--United States
Notes
- - "General references": p. 138-139.
Medium
- 139 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- HQ1239 .S6
- JK1881 .N357 sec. IX, no. 11 Another copy. Bookplate of Carrie Chapman Catt inside front cover; second bookplate: library, Carrie Chapman Catt. Gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Nov. 1, 1938.
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- 29012783
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- Catt, Carrie Chapman
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Smith, Ethel Marion