Prologue : the search for political woman
The Iowa origins of organized Republican women
"One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" : women in New York City politics, 1890-1910
The rise of political woman in the election of 1912
All the way for the ERA : winning and losing in Virginia
The women who ran for president
Ruth Bryan Owen : Florida's first congresswoman
Marion Martin of Maine : a mother of Republican women
Gender gaps in presidential elections
Feminism and antifeminism in the Republican and Democratic Parties
Gender representation in the Democratic and Republican Parties
"Equality" vs. "protection" : setting the agenda after suffrage
How "sex" got into Title VII : persistent opportunism as a maker of public policy
Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment
Comparable worth
Epilogue: the long road to Madame Speaker.