What particular challenges did women encounter during the Gilded Age (roughly 1880-1920)? If you were a working woman in 1912, and you could have voted (although in most states you could not) which candidate from the election of 1912 (Taft,Debs) do you think would most address the problems you faced?
Readings from "the 1912 election and the power of progressivism" by flehinger