American Government › Section E · Civil rights › Topic E.3
The fight for women's rights
Women were citizens from the start yet could not vote, serve on many juries or keep their own wages. How they won rights through amendments, statutes and court rulings, and why the Equal Rights Amendment stalled, shows every route to change the system offers.
In this topic
- Citizens without equal rights
- Two routes to the vote
- The Nineteenth Amendment
- Worked example: why the federal route won
- After the vote
- The courts change the standard
- The Equal Rights Amendment
- Worked example: is the ERA in the Constitution?
- Continuing debates
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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