Mrs Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont of the Woman’s Party urged women to boycott the elections: ‘Husband your new power. Suffragists did not fight for your emancipation for seventy years to have you become servants to men’s parties.’The power women will be able to exercise lies with their not joining a party system of men. The party system of politics is a trick of men to conceal the real issues. Women should work for the measures they want outside of party politics. It is because the old political parties realize that woman’s influence will be so negligible on the inside that they are so eager to get women to join them.

Very interesting perspective on women's suffrage as the compromise/bare minimum position. Recognizes how hard fought it was and also how it scattered the focus and energies of the WRM

The granting of the vote to the suffrage movement killed the WRM. Though the antifeminist forces appeared to give in, they did so in name only. They never lost. By the time the vote was granted, the long channelling of feminist energies into the limited goal of suffrage – seen initially as only one step to political power – had thoroughly depleted the WRM. The monster Ballot had swallowed everything else. Three generations had elapsed from the time of the inception of the WRM; the master-planners all were dead.The women who later joined the feminist movement to work for the single issue of the vote had never had time to develop a broader consciousness: by then they had forgotten what the vote was for. The opposition had had its way. The women who later joined the feminist movement to work for the single issue of the vote had never had time to develop a broader consciousness: by then they had forgotten what the vote was for. The opposition had had its way.

In the thirties, after the Depression, women sobered. Flapperism was obviously not the answer: they felt more hung up and neurotic than ever before. But with the myth of emancipation going full blast, women dared not complain. If they had gotten what they wanted, and were still dissatisfied, then something must be wrong with them. Secretly they suspected that maybe they really mere inferior after all. Or maybe it was just the social order: they joined the Communist party, where once again they empathized mightily with the underdog, unable to acknowledge that the strong identification they felt with the exploited working class came directly from their own experience of oppression.