What if the 19th Amendment was never passed?

Question

Hi, everyone. I'm working on my final project for US history. The assignment is to rewrite an event of the 20th century as if it happened differently. In my case, I need to rewrite history in a way that the 19th Amendment (women's right to vote) was never passed, and explain three major/minor events that would've been affected by the change, and how America was changed in some significant way.

I know I should be able to do this assignment on my own, but I'm all out of ideas. May I have a few of the Yahoo! community's valuable insights, please?

Every bit would help, thank you!

Answer 1

I could see A LOT of stuff changing...

Way fewer women's rights, def. It's possible the sexual revolution would never have occurred. Abortion would not be the HUGE issue it is today - it can make or break a supreme court justice's nomination. If the s*x rev had not happened, there would probably be far fewer women in the workplace.

Keep in mind also that the suffrage movement set off waves of other things - the independent women known as flappers, the gaiety, affluence, and looser society of the 1920s (night clubs and whatnot).

Also, women's rights movements fought for minority rights as well, so the civil rights era might now have happened at all if it weren't for female suffrage.

Think of all the things on TV you wouldn't see without women's lib - reality shows like My Super Sweet Sixteen (did parents ever spoil their daughters like this or allow them to "mouth off" so much before women's lib? No. The sons were the celebrated, important members of the family, and the girls were secondary.)

The shopping, clubbing, and s*x and the City society of girl-oriented-party-fun that you are familiar with wouldn't exist. Far fewer appliances and services would have been invented for women, since they likely would not work outside the home very often. Think of Susie homemaker era 1920 and go from there.

Just some ideas to get you started.

Answer 2

Roe v. Wade.

Answer 3

Many of the states had already granted women the right to vote before the 19th amendment was passed.  If it hadn't been, the Women's Suffrage movement would just have persevered with their state-by-state campaigns, and eventually all the states would probably have given women the vote anyway.

I doubt it would have made much difference to the number of women in the workplace, women have always had to work, whether they had the vote or not, and there were actually fewer women in the workplace in 1930 than there had been in 1910.  The number of women entering the professions declined sharply in the 1920s, a woman doctor for instance remarked sadly that female physicians had become "as fashionable as a horse and buggy."

Getting the vote caused a sharp decline in interest in politics among women, once they had the vote, the National American Woman Suffrage Association turned itself into the League of Women Voters, and its membership plunged to one-tenth of what it was.

I seriously doubt that there would be fewer appliances or services for women without the 19th amendment.  Women have always been targeted as consummers, and were long before women had the vote.

Answer 4

women wouldnt hold important jobs like the ones today and theyd be more civil rights protests and feminist groups

Answer 5

Hillary Clinton would be just another ex first lady.