This was the headline of a 1922 article in the Minneapolis Tribune on women in law enforcement and civic leadership roles.
The article begins, “You may like it, and you may not, but women have firmly insisted upon being lawyers, policemen, judges, sheriffs, and what not and there is little likelihood that they are going to be persuaded to go into retirement”.
The article was published less than two years after final passage of the 19th Amendment (August 18, 1920) and it provides a valuable glimpse into how these women viewed their work and what they hoped to achieve.
To read the entire article, just click on the link below and scroll to page 25.
View of Minneapolis Tribune of February 5, 1922 courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society