The Supreme Court recently ruled that maternity leave is a constitutional right, even in the case of a third child. But how ...

Born in San Francisco on Jan. 13, 1865, Pauline Marie Schindler was the only child of Prussian immigrants, William and Rosalie Schindler. When William, a career Army man, was transferred to ...

Roessing took her Justice Bell experience with her as she would go on to serve as the program chairwoman of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). A ‘Winning Plan’ at the national ...

At the 1919 Convention of NAWSA (in St. Louis), a motion was made to merge the two organizations. The League’s formal organization was drafted in Chicago at the 1920 Convention. Ongoing major ...

In 1917, Dudley was appointed vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). After the ratification of the 19th Amendment, Dudley became the first woman delegate-at-large ...

Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Boyer represented Pennsylvania at the NAWSA convention in Washington in February 1904, where she presented the report of the organization’s Committee on ...

Her project opens a conversation surrounding the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA). While this association had branches in Maine and Louisiana, the states’ stark contrasts of ...

Lucy Burns is played in Suffs by Ally Bonino. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and played a pivotal role in securing the passage of the 19th ...

At the 1911 meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the membership elected Jane Addams as first vice president and Sophonisba Breckinridge as second vice president. The ...

Wells was standing to the side…[A] few days earlier, leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) had insisted she not march with the Illinois delegation. Certain Southern women ...

On December 21, 1887 she was appointed to lead the task force charged with merging the AWSA and the NWSA to create the NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (NAWSA). That merger took place on ...