 | in the US reside. And, in 1917, Catt announces NAWSA’s support of President Woodrow Wilson during World War I — even volunteering the services of NAWSA members to the government during the war. The women’s war efforts are so successful that Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who led NAWSA’s wartime work, is one of the first women awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Because Woodrow Wilson characterizes the World War as a fight “to make the world safe for democracy”, Catt is able to convince him that democracy includes the right to vote for women. Women in 19 countries, including the UK, Canada, Russia, and Germany, have won the right to vote by the end of 1918. So, Wilson urges the US Congress to vote for the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. The US House of Representatives passes the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in January 1918, but it isn’t until June 4, 1919 that the US Senate finally passes it. Carrie Chapman Catt writes in Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement: “To get the word male [first included in 1868 in the Fourteenth Amendment] in effect out of the Constitution cost the women of the country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign thereafter. During that time they were forced to conduct fifty-six campaigns of referenda to male voters; 480 campaigns to urge Legislatures to submit suffrage amendments to voters; 47 campaigns to induce State constitutional conventions to write woman suffrage into State constitutions; 277 campaigns to persuade State party conventions to include woman |  |
