Women -- Employment -- United States; Women -- Social and moral questions
LOUISIANA—Women over twenty-one are eligible to any office of control or
management under school laws of the State. [Constitution, Art. 232.]
MAINE—Women are eligible to the office of supervisor of schools and
superintending school committee. [Sch. Law, 1889.]
MASSACHUSETTS—Women are eligible to serve on school committees, and to
vote at school meetings for members of school committees. [Sch. Law,
1883.]
MICHIGAN—Women are eligible to election to district offices, to the
office of school inspector, and are qualified to vote at district
meetings. [Sch. Law, 1885.]
MINNESOTA—Women of twenty-one and over who have resided in the United
States one year, and in this State for four months preceding the
election, may vote for school officers, or for any measure relating to
schools which may come up in school district meetings. Any woman so
entitled to vote may hold any office pertaining to the management of
schools. [Sch. Law, 1887.]
NEBRASKA—Women twenty-one years of age, resident of the district and
owners of property, or having children to educate, may vote in district
meetings. [Sch. Law, 1885.]
NEW HAMPSHIRE—Women may vote at school district meetings if they have
resided and had a home in the district for three months next preceding
such meeting. They may hold town and district school offices. [Sch. Law,
1886.]
NEW JERSEY—Women over twenty-one years of age, resident of the State for
one year, and of the county for five months preceding such meeting, may
vote at school meetings. They are eligible to the office of school
trustee. [Sch. Law, 1887.]
NEW YORK—No person shall be deemed to be ineligible to serve as any
school officer, or to vote at any school meeting, by reason of sex, who
has the other qualifications now required by law. This permits women to
act as school trustees, and to vote at district meetings, if residents
of the district, holding taxable property, and over twenty-one years of
age. [Sch. Law, 1887.]
OREGON—Women who are widows and have children to educate, and taxable
property in the district, shall be entitled to vote at district
meetings. [Sch. Law, 1887.]
PENNSYLVANIA—Women twenty-one years of age and upwards are eligible not
only to the office of county superintendent, but to any office of
control or management under the school laws of the State. [Sch. Law,
1888.]
RHODE ISLAND—Women can be elected to the office of school committee, and
a woman is as eligible as a man for school superintendent. [Sch. Law,
1882.]
VERMONT—Women have the same right to vote as men have in all school
district meetings, and in the election of school commissioners in towns
and cities, and the same right to hold offices relating to school
affairs. [Sch. Law, 1881.]
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