Woman had to start taking men jobs. To be simple.
Answer: Reduce size and spending
At the time the government lied to the American public about the status of the ongoing Vietnam War, everyone thought that we were winning the war, until the new York times published the pentagon papers which showed the American public that wasn't the case.
The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) opposed the Fifteenth Amendment, while the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) supported the new law. ... The pair believed that instead of supporting the Fifteenth Amendment as it was, women's rights activists should fight for women to be included as well.
