- They courted women’s votes especially in the early 1920s, with a massive influx of new voters that made up half the population. A ‘women’s voting bloc’ seemed real.
- Parties also formed ‘women’s divisions’ or created a committee system of equal numbers men and women (even though men often chose the female members.)
- But when parties looked for a candidate for a position in office, they continued to seek ‘a good man’, seldom imagining that a woman might qualify.
Most party leaders confined women to auxiliary, service roles. They expected women to help elect men but not seek office themselves.