Womens rights during a TR third Term

If TR and the Progressives managed to win in 1912, how would this effect womens rights? Would women get the vote earlier then IOTL? Would this happen before ww1, or possibly before the 1916 election?
 
I don't see why not. The Progressives were big supporters of women's suffrage, and I can see T.R. pushing the issue earlier than Woodrow Wilson, who only gave lukewarm support to the passage of the women's suffrage amendment.
 

Sachyriel

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Reporting Nathanromml, oh god I don't like this feeling.

Anyways, ignoring him, if women got the vote earlier, we might see a financial restructuring allowing for no stock market crash. I doubt it would butterfly away the assassination of Mr. Ferdinand unless his wife was enthralled with the culture of liberated American women and booked them a vacation across the sea. Then he might not even be shot, and the womens movement as butterflied away WW1!
 
Well the Anti-Saloon League had a major part in pushing forward the 18th amendment. It's leaders where men, and not women. While Christian women tend to have the image of being against alcohol the major political organizations post-1900 were lead by men. Some even point to the League putting forward major dollars to defeat the wet Al Smith.
 
A sympathetic President is not the same as a Constitutional amendment. It needs 36 state legislatures + two thirds of both Houses of Congress.
 
A sympathetic President is not the same as a Constitutional amendment. It needs 36 state legislatures + two thirds of both Houses of Congress.

Mabe I'm cynic, but ...
I think it needs only one of the two major parties having an handsome candidate who is hoping to seize most of women votes
 
Surprisingly, TR wasn't super-human.

No he was not but he understood politics, the press, and could spin public opinion rather well. More over TR is pretty close to being super-human given his accomplishments in life. I do not know of many Americans who can claim to have been a governor, soldier, author, explorer, rancher, police commissioner, and more. Honestly his personality was such that if he wanted women to get the vote he would go for it with everything he had.
 
No he was not but he understood politics, the press, and could spin public opinion rather well. More over TR is pretty close to being super-human given his accomplishments in life. I do not know of many Americans who can claim to have been a governor, soldier, author, explorer, rancher, police commissioner, and more. Honestly his personality was such that if he wanted women to get the vote he would go for it with everything he had.


Which is all very well, but doesn't of itself produce two-thirds majorities in both houses.

The Progressive Party in Congress was negligible. To have the remotest chance of passing an Amendment, TR would need the support of nearly all the Democrats (his old enemies) and some at least of the Taft Republicans (his new enemies). Sorry, but I just don't se where the votes come from.

William Jennings Bryan was an early supporter of Women's suffrage, but he's also a very partisan Democrat and may not be eager to help a Republican (as he would see it) Adminsitration.
 
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