After the success of the antislavery movement in the early 19th century, women activists in the United States took another step toward claiming a voice in politics. They were known as the suffragettes. It took those women a lot of effort and a few decades to seek ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In her essay “The Next Generation of Suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and Grassroots Politics,” Ellen Carol Dubois notes some of the difficulties that American suffragists faced in gaining passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Along with that essay, the film Iron-Jawed Angels goes some way to painting a vivid picture of the obstacles in the fight for women's suffrage. In her essay “Gender at Work: The Sexual Division of Labor during World War II,” Ruth Milkman highlights the segregation of men and women in the workplace during the war, decades after the success of the women's suffrage movement. Similarly, the women in the Glamor Girls of 1943 were segregated from the men so that they could only do the jobs temporarily and would not be able to return to work once the war was over. In other words, many American women helped claim a voice by voting and joining hands during World War II, but they weren't big enough to change public opinion about women. According to Ellen Carol Dubois, campaigns to gain women's suffrage were not easy by requiring voters to “be persuaded to welcome new and unpredictable constituencies into the political arena” (420). In the North, there was also strong resistance regarding immigrant voting and the exclusion of African Americans and poor whites in the South (420). Immigrants in the North and African Americans in the South were not fully qualified to vote for women. Harriot Stanton Bl...... half of the paper ...... does not change but reinforces the belief that women knew nothing about how machinery worked. That's all, women were simply secondary in society even though they played an important role in the war, their true place was said to be at home. All in all, American suffragettes sacrificed their time and risked their lives just to claim the right they should have been given long ago. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, giving American women a voice in politics through the vote. After ratification it was the period of the Second World War that gave women the opportunity to return to the world of work. Men were sent to war, women were actively recruited into the workforce. Despite women's contributions to the war, they were still seen as secondary to men. Because of this, hope for gender equality in the United States became even stronger after World War II.