Before the Women's Suffrage Movement women were looked down upon socially, economically, and politically. Socially women were viewed as less superior to white males therefore they were denied many rights. Politically, women were denied many rights such as the right to vote.
Explanation: women should have the right to vote;
1. Because it is fair and right that those who must obey the laws should have a voice in making them, and that those who must pay taxes should have a vote as to the size of the tax and the way it shall be spent.
2. Because the moral, educational, and humane legislation desired by women would be got more easily if women had voted. New York women have worked in vain for years to secure a legislative appropriation to found a state industrial School for Girls. Colorado women worked in vain for one till they got the ballot; then the Legislature promptly granted it.
3. Because laws unjust to women would be amended more quickly. It cost Massachusetts women 55 years of effort to secure the law-making mother's equal guardians of their children with their fathers. In Colorado, after women were enfranchised, the very next Legislature granted it. After more than half a century of agitation by women for this reform only 13 out of 46 States now give equal guardianship to mothers.
4. Because disfranchisement helps to keep wages down. Hon. Carroll D. Wright, National Commissioner of Labor said in an address delivered at Smith College on February 22, 1902 "The lack of direct political influence constitutes a powerful reason why women's wages have been kept at a minimum."
5. Because equal suffrage would increase the proportion of educated voters. The high schools of every state in the Union are graduating more girls than boys-often twice or three times as many.
