A small number of American women held a progressive anti-suffragist position because they believed that voting right was an ineffective technique to improve the conditions of females in the existing society. It is essential to note that these women anti-suffragists were either aristocrats or newly rich. The aristocrat-class women were educated female who obviously came from political and affluent families. The newly rich, on the other hand, were educated women who worked to earn their own wealth. Similar to the suffragists, the issue of unequal wages between men and women was also the concern of the progressive anti-suffragists. However, suffrage opponents who held this position differentiated from the suffragists because of their method…show more content… "League for the Civic Education of Women" and the "Guidon Study Club Opposed to Woman Suffrage" are examples of two anti-suffragist organizations that emerged during the year of 1908. A progressive anti-suffrage from the organization of Civic Education published an essay in response to the suffragist argument that women should vote because they pay taxes like men. The writer suggested that such argument is inappropriate because men do not vote because they pay taxes. Furthermore, she highlights the fact that voting rights cannot improve the conditions for working women. The founder of the Guidon Club is Helen Kendrick Johnson who counters the suffragist by questioning that if women were repressed by the traditional values and ideas of the society, then how did she develop as a leading figure in the literary world? Reflecting back on the suffrage movement, she further argues that voting rights is not a synonym for progression. These organizations and essays signifies that the progressive anti-suffrage position was not influential because they did not affect the political course of the movement. They did, however, give support to the aristocrat-class anti-suffragists by justifying the opposition for women's voting rights. Moreover, the audience of the essays were not the general public, but readers who were able to attend higher educational institutes. Thus, this group of anti-suffragists did not build a diverse group of anti-suffrage support system like the aristocrat-class anti-suffrages