Editing Crystal Eastman (section)

==Emancipation==
Wallace J. Benedict was an insurance agent in [[Milwaukee]], Wisconsin, and so when Eastman married him in 1911, she moved there after the wedding. <ref name=":02" /> There she managed the unsuccessful 1912 [[Wisconsin]] [[suffrage]] campaign.<ref name="nwhm2" />

Divorcing in 1913, she returned east where she joined [[Alice Paul]], [[Lucy Burns]], and others in founding the militant [[Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage]], which became the [[National Woman's Party]].<ref name=":02" /><ref name="brittanica2" /> After the passage of the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|19th Amendment]] gave women the right to vote in 1920, Eastman and Paul wrote the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] (ERA), first introduced in 1923.<ref name="brittanica2" /> One of the few socialists to endorse the ERA, Eastman warned that protective legislation for women would mean only discrimination against women.<ref name="brittanica2" /> Eastman claimed that one could assess the importance of the ERA by the intensity of the opposition to it. However, she felt that it was still a struggle worth fighting. She also delivered the speech "Now We Can Begin" after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment;it outlined the work that needed to be done in the political and economic spheres to achieve gender equality.