8. A Woman’s Place?
Although women’s right to vote was ratified in the U.S. Constitution as the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920, up until that point, women had limited voting rights in the 19th and early-20th centuries. The authorities were very concerned that these mere women might get above their station and have their say on issues that they weren’t legally entitled to vote for.
So, in order for them to stay in their lane, the government created two separate ballot boxes for men and women. So if a woman did vote on something she was not supposed to it would be easily noticed and just as easily discarded.
