The removal of all forms of the subjection of women is the
purpose to which the National Woman’s Party is dedicated. Its
present campaign to remove the discriminations against women in
the laws of the United States is the beginning of its determined
effort to secure the freedom of women, an integral part of the
struggle for human liberty for which women are first of all
responsible. Its interest lies in the final release of woman
from the class of a dependent, subservient being to which early
civilization committed her.  The laws of various States at
present hold her in that class. They deny her a control of her
children equal to the father’s; they deny her, if married, the
right to her own earnings; they punish her for offenses for
which men go unpunished; they exclude her from public office and
from public institutions to the support of which her taxes
contribute. These laws are not the creation of this age, but the
fact that they are still tolerated on our statute books and that
in some States their remova