Carrie Lane, Carrie Chapman, Carrie Catt, name her what you will, she is an Iowa farmer's daughter (born, however, in Wisconsin) whose spirit certainly held sway in the meeting of the International Suffrage Alliance not only because of her financial contributions but because she was its founder and President from 1904 to 1923, when she retired.

There are reasons for Mrs. Catt's influence. Born on a farm, she worked her way through a four-year course at Grinnell College in three years, and the entire cost to her father was only $100. At 22 she was superintendent of schools at Mason City, Iowa. At 25 she married a struggling country editor, Leo Chapman, and worked with him until his death less than two years later. At 30 she was soliciting advertisements for a trade paper in San Francisco. At 31 she married George W. Catt (who died 15 years later), and most of her work on behalf of women dates from her second marriage. In 1900 she succeeded Susan B. Anthony as President of the American Woman Suffrage Association and labored untiringly for the 19^th Amendment until its adoption in 1920. Composed, forceful, direct, she has faced many stormy situations, and now at 67, though retired from many active concerns, her name is still a word to conjure with in women's circles.

In recent years women leaders have become more diverse than they once were, just as their activities have become more diverse. The U.S. now has such diverse organizations as the National Woman's Party, which desires to be a real political party and set up a bloc to demand absolute equality for women; the League of Women Voters, content to work through existing parties for more modest political ends; the General Federation of Women's clubs, with more general cultural aims; and a host of societies intent on improving the world — the Junior League through charity, the Women's Christian Temperance Union through morals, church organizations through religion, still others by abolishing war, tobacco, etc.

The gamut of organizations is matched by an equal variety of women's leaders — leaders of political causes, such as Maud Wood Park, Belle Sherwin, Mrs. Oliver Belmont, Alice Paul; leaders in practical politics, ranging from Ruth McCormick and Harriet Taylor Upton to Congresswomen Kahn, Rogers, Norton and Governesses Ross and Ferguson, who are really not leaders of women's movements at all; leaders of "social" movements such as Edith Rockefeller McCormick; leaders who have distinguished themselves in their own professions, such as Judge Florence Allen, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt and Jane Addams; and women who have approached public life from poverty, from bourgeoisie, from wealth and from social distinction. But one must credit Mrs. Catt with having gone the furthest as a leader of women as women. Despite her advancing age, she is most likely to be named when an oldtime suffragist is asked, "What woman could be President of the United States?"