THE WOMAN CITIZEN A GENERAL HANDBOOK OF CIVICS, WITH SPECIAL CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN'S CITIZENSHIP BY MARY SUMNER BOYD CHAIRMAN OF THE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF THE JK B79 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Copyright, 1918, by FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY All rights reserved, including that of translation 1.8.43 PREFACE Women in eighteen states can now vote for president of the United States. In twenty others they have some voting rights. Nine of these thirty-eight states gained this right in 1917-1918, and so strong has popular approval of woman suffrage grown since the great war began that it will be a very short time before all American women will have the vote by amendment to the National Constitution. It is to these women, who will form not far from an even half of our electorate, that this handbook of civics is addressed. It aims to give them information which will be useful both while they are working for the vote and after they have obtained it. It was undertaken largely in consequence of inquiries which came to me as Secretary of the Data Department of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and chapter after chapter covers matters about which many women have asked for information. The table of voting qualifications in the forty-eight states, for example, which accompanies Chapters IV and V of Part I, was compiled for this reason, ་ པ་་ |