Women Increase Role in Society
The NAWSA worked to further women’s suffrage at the state level. Their approach, however, was slightly different from before. Rather than focusing on the fact that men and women are “created equal,” suffragists argued that women should be permitted to vote because they were different from men and could contribute to creating a more virtuous society.
As more states adopted women’s suffrage, national support for women’s suffrage continued to grow. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party became the first major national political party to support women’s suffrage. That same year, a New York City suffrage parade had 20,000 participants, and the following year, the NAWSA organized another parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. This led to many more women’s rights events and more women joining the fight for equal rights for women
