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Women's Joint Congressional Committee : ウィキペディア英語版 | Women's Joint Congressional Committee
The Women's Joint Congressional Committee was an American coalition of existing women's rights organizations formed after women gained the right to vote in 1920, with the aim of coordinating lobbying around women's issues at the national level. Active from 1920 to 1930, this umbrella organization included the League of Women Voters, the Women's Trade Union League, and the National Consumers' League, eventually coming to represent 12 million women.〔("The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920–30" ).〕 ==Formation== The committee was formed at the suggestion of Maud Wood Park, who was concerned that the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting any U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex might cause women to abandon the women's organizing groups and lead to greater political partisanship, and wanted instead to channel the existing organizing energy into continuing to lobby for women's interests.〔(Women's Organizing after Suffrage: The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Sheppard-Towner Act" ).〕 As a national organization with members including both national organizations and local chapters, the committee formed several sub-committees around issues including infancy and maternity protection, independent citizenship for married women, regulation of the meat packing industry and child labor, social hygiene and education, and Prohibition.〔
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