A Walk in Our 'Shoe : the history of Ohio Stadium

(Image: Women march in Stadium Week Youth Parade, 1920) District organizers of the fund drive adhered to a strict division of labor, establishing publicity committees at district and local levels, creating a bevy of canvassing committees, and dividing men from women. Women's publicity committees, regionally divided, solicited alumnae and lady citizens, as men's committees sought out alumni and male locals. As the fund drive fell hot on the heels of ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women in the U.S. voting rights, the drive's sex-based division of labor proved to be of special concern to women.