Progressivism and the womens rights movement

Question

What was the link between progressivism and the women’s rights movement?

Answer 1

Women in America got vote to right in 1900. But opposition to “votes for women” was as strong as ever, especially in the South and the big cities of the Northeast and Midwest. Most of Americans, women quite as much as men, continued to suppose that women’s finer moral sense made it best that they stay in a domestic sphere insulated from public life. The democratic inclinations of the progressives made it in increasingly difficult for them to deny the franchise to half the population on any grounds.