Women were granted the right to vote by the 19th Amendment, passed by Congress in 1919 and ratified by enough states in 1920 to take effect. In 1923, the Supreme Court decided that federal minimum wage legislation applying to women infringed on the liberty of contract and thus on the Fifth Amendment.
Green Lady may refer to: 1  Chinese Girl, a painting by Vladimir Tretchikoff. 2  Lady of the Green Kirtle, the main villain in C.S. Lewis's book The Silver Chair.
Burns, a former radio journalist and now an associate professor of media studies at Quinnipiac University, argues in her book First Ladies and the Fourth Estate that press coverage of Carter, Nixon, and other presidential spouses put them in a difficult position.