Women’s organizational leadership raised both their own and their husbands’ power

Evidence

The social status of these women in their communities derived in part from their husbands. At the same time, by leading and broadening a network of numerous local educational support societies, the women enhanced their own prestige and also the prestige and actual power of their husbands in the denomination and the state. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 315

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A single mother achieved national black leadership without a husband’s support — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 732; Structural factors, not ideology, gave women bridging roles — Silke Roth, Intersectionality and coalitions in…, 159