The NAWSA disbanded as an organization after gaining the right to vote.

That gave birth to the League of Women Voters.

The women of the NAWSA had won the battle to vote. However, the vote was not enough to secure women’s equal rights according to Alice Paul, founder of the National Woman’s Party (NWP).

She moved to take women’s rights one step further by proposing the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) to Congress in 1923. This demand to eliminate discrimination on the basis of gender failed to pass.

The push for the E.R.A. continued on a state-by-state basis, until the newly formed National Organization for Women (NOW) launched a national campaign during the 1960’s. Despite many heated debates and protests, the E.R.A. , while passed by Congress in 1972, has never been ratified.

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