here are 55 photos that offer a glimpse at what life was like for women in the 1920s. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was passed more than 100 years ago, although it would ...

Rose O’Neill created the Kewpie doll. In December 1909, her dolls first appeared in a women’s magazine. She went on to become the highest-paid female commercial illustrator in the U.S. in the early ...

Black, yellow, and white illustration of a town crier, also known as a bellman, ringing a bell and shouting "Vote Yes for Woman Suffrage." The woman's suffrage movement began in the early 1820s, ...

At a recent town hall in the exurbs of Atlanta, Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., faced a torrent of criticism from a woman who accused him of sponsoring legislation that would make it more difficult ...

Suffragettes in Governor Walter Roscoe Stubb's automobile, going after the vote in Topeka, Kansas. The women are identified as: (l to r) Laura Clay, President of Kentucky Equal Rights Association ...

Getty Images I went to a meeting of the League ... they might need to change their name to the “League of Women,” because the voting part is about to get really dicey. Pending before Congress ...

Beginning in the 1840s, women organized in a concerted effort to gain the vote. Their goal seemed almost impossible: In 1848, when suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first convention ...

At a recent town hall in the exurbs of Atlanta, Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., faced a torrent of criticism from a woman who accused him of sponsoring legislation that would make it more difficult ...