Until the Nineteenth Amendment, women could be denied the right to vote. Of course, they are “persons” within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, but so are children, the Court observed in 1874.21 The right to serve on juries could be reserved to men,22 a proposition the Court declined to reexamine in 1971, although Justice Douglas urged his brethren to do so.23 Women, regardless of individual talent, could be excluded from occupations thought more suitable to men—lawyering and bartending, for example.24
