National Association Opposed To Women's Suffrage

"We believe that political equality will deprive us of special privileges hitherto accorded to us by law"

- The NAOWS on why they were opposed to female suffrage The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, or NAOWS, was a political organization founded in 1911 by Josephine Jewell Dodge. It believed that giving American women the vote would increase race riots and place certain states under "petticoat rule". It disbanded in 1920.