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Endnotes

[i] See Rupp, Leila J. and Verta Taylor.  Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women’s Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s.  (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 48-49, also see Sara Evans.  Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. (New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1989 & 1997),  232, 277, also see Cynthia Harrison.  On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women’s Issues, 1945-1968. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), 8

[ii] One example of this protective legislation is the case of Muller v. Oregon (1908), which upheld a 10-hour limit on women’s workday length in Oregon.  See: Nancy Woloch.  Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents. (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1996).  52-57, 58-61.

[iii] Beran, Jan.  The League of Women Voters of Iowa: A Voice for Citizens, A Force for Change.  (Des Moines, IA: League of Women Voters of Iowa, 1997).  5

[iv] Rupp, 48, and Evans, 232, 277

[v] Hunt, Adelyn Kimball (Mrs. E.A.).  Address to the Iowa League of Women Voters, Sioux City, April 18, 1943.  Folder: Legislation, League Reports, Roll Calls, Etc.  Box 20, League of Women Voters of Iowa papers, Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa Libraries.

[vi] Folder: Membership – State Numbers, League of Women Voters of Iowa papers, Box 47, Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa Libraries.

[vii] Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1955.  V. 77.  (Washington, DC: United States Printing Office, 1956).  Charts no. 20, 42, 45, 131, 225

[viii] League of Women Voters’ 1955 Program.  Folder: Publications – National Broadsides, Box 48, League of Women Voters of Iowa papers, Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa Libraries.

[ix] Rupp, 6-7 and Susan Lynn, “Gender and Progressive Politics: A Bridge to Social Activism of the 1960s,” Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960.  Joanne Meyerowitz, ed. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994). 103-127

[x] Congressional Digest.  22 (April 1943).  99-128.