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Helen Keller had said in 1911: "We vote? What does that mean? " And Emma Goldman around the same time: "Our modern fetish is universal suffrage. " After 1920, women were voting, as men did, and their subordinate condition had hardly changed.
Right after women got the vote, the measure of their social progress can he seen in an advice column written by Dorothy Dix that appeared in newspapers all over the country. The woman should not merely be a domestic drudge, she said: