Women’s Suffrage – Object #3

The Sky Is Now Her Limit

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<p>Cartoon shows a young woman carrying buckets on a yoke, looking up at ladder ascending up to the sky, bottom rungs labeled “Slavery,” “House Drudgery,” and “Shop Work.” Top rungs labeled “Equal Suffrage,” “Wage Equity,” and “Presidency.”</p>

August, 1920, political cartoon subtitled “Enfranchisement now means the sky’s the limit, in woman’s sphere”

Questions:
What is the main idea of this drawing?
How does this image compare women’s suffrage to climbing a ladder?

Citations

Elmer Andrews Bushnell, “The Sky is Now Her Limit,” August 1920.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.