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15 Stan. J. C.R. & C.L. 349 (2019-2020)
More than the Vote: The Nineteenth Amendment as Proxy for Gender Equality

handle is hein.journals/stjcrcl15 and id is 369 raw text is: MORE THAN THE VOTE: THE NINETEENTH AMENDMENT AS PROXY FOR GENDER EQUALITY Tracy A. Thomas* INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................... 349 I. DECLARING W OMEN'S SENTIMENTS .................................................. 355 II. A HOLISTIC PLAN FOR EQUALITY ...................................................... 359 A. The State ................................................................................. 360 B. The Family .............................................................................. 361 C. Industry ................................................................................... 364 D. The Church ............................................................................. 367 E. Narrowing in on the Vote ....................................................... 369 III. FROM THE VOTE TO EQUALITY.......................................................... 371 CONCLUSION............................................................................................. 377 INTRODUCTION Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pioneering leader of the women's rights movement in the nineteenth century, famously declared the right of women to vote in 1848 at a convention in Seneca Falls, New York.' She alone initially appreciated the importance of the vote both for women's political power and participation in the governance of the country, as well as its symbolic meaning for women's full citizenship.2 Her abolitionist and religious colleagues, however, were suspicious and a bit outraged by the suffrage demand, as these moralistic reformers were opposed to politics, which they viewed as fundamentally corrupt due to bribery, * Seiberling Chair of Constitutional Law and Director of the Center for Constitutional Law, The University of Akron. 1. Report of the Woman's Rights Convention, Held at Seneca Falls (July 19-20, 1848), in 1 THE SELECTED PAPERS OF ELIZABETH CADY STANTON AND SUSAN B. ANTHONY 75, 76-79 (Ann D. Gordon ed., 1998). 2. See SUE DAVIS, THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF ELIZABETH CADY STANTON: WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITIONS 90 (2008); JUDITH WELLMAN, THE ROAD TO SENECA FALLS: ELIZABETH CADY STANTON AND THE FIRST WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION 193 (2004). 349

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