Endnotes

1. See Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor, Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 48-49. See also Sara Evans,  Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (New York: Free Press, 1989 & 1997),  pp. 232, 277; Cynthia Harrison,  On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women's Issues, 1945-1968 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), p. 8.
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2. One example of this protective legislation is the case of Muller v. Oregon (1908), which upheld a 10-hour limit on women's workday length in Oregon.  See Nancy Woloch,  Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996), pp. 52-61.
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3. Jan Beran, The League of Women Voters of Iowa: A Voice for Citizens, A Force for Change (Des Moines, Iowa: League of Women Voters of Iowa, 1997),  p. 5.
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4. Rupp, Survival in the Doldrums, p. 48; Evans, Born For Liberty, pp. 232, 277.
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5. Adelyn Kimball Hunt,  "Address to the Iowa League of Women Voters, Sioux City, April 18, 1943,"  Folder: Legislation, League Reports, Roll Calls, Etc.,  Box 20, League of Women Voters of Iowa Papers, Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries.
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6. Folder: State Numbers, Membership League of Women Voters of Iowa Papers, Box 47, Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries.
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7. Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1955.  Vol. 77  (Washington, DC: United States Printing Office, 1956),  pp. 20, 42, 45, 131, 225.
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8. League of Women Voters' 1955 Program,  Folder: Publications--National Broadsides, Box 48, League of Women Voters of Iowa Papers, Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries.
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9. Rupp, Survival in the Doldrums, pp 6-7 and Susan Lynn, "Gender and Progressive Politics: A Bridge to Social Activism of the 1960s," in Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960,  Joanne Meyerowitz, ed. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994), pp 103-27
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10. Congressional Digest,  22 (1943), pp.  99-128.
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