19th Century Progress

The 19th century is when all the fights came to their peaking point. It was either victory or failure. Most memorably, in 1919, the federal woman suffrage amendment is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. It was written by Susan B. Anthony and it took over 30 years for it to be put into effect, with it being first introduced in Congress in 1878.The next year the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor is formed with the sole purpose of collecting information about women in the workforce and safeguarding good working conditions for women. August 26 marked the historical day in which the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, was signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.

Esther Peterson became the director of the Women's Bureau of the Dept. of Labor in 1961. Because of her, President Kennedy assembled a Commission on the Status of Women and named Eleanor Roosevelt as its chairwoman.