How Household Duties Can Help the Nation
As the women's suffrage movement grew, women became more politically aware. Suffragists changed the way they phrased their message. In the beginning, they said women were citizens and should be equal with men. Later, the suffragists began to draw attention to women's special role in society.

Suffragists used the idea that women were kinder, purer, and gentler than men. Although some people used women's role at home as a reason to not let them vote, suffragists said that women's special role in the home could help improve and “clean up” politics.