Alice Paul

Paul, Alice (1885–1977), U.S. leader of the women's movement for equal rights. A founder of the National Woman's Party (1917) and the World Woman's Party (1938), she was active in the struggle for passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. After it was ratified (1920), she worked for the Equal Rights Amendment, first submitted to Congress in 1923.

See also: Equal Rights Amendment.