The Woman Who Votes Has Outdone the Man Who Didn't! (English poster distributed in Asia)
A woman in a dress with butterfly-style sleeves drops a slip marked 'VOTE' into a padlocked 'BALLOT BOX' while a man in a straw hat sleeps under a tree, with 'ZZZZ' above him. The headline says the woman who votes has outdone the man who did not. The poster urges citizens to vote and mocks non-voters. The tell is bandwagon and plain-folks: ordinary people are shown voting and the idler is made the contrast.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- October 8, 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- National Movement for Free Elections and League of Women Voters (printed credit); U.S. Information Agency poster series, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Gender and suffrage
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, October 8, 1951. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730163, 306-PPA-262).
Text on the object
VOTE BALLOT BOX Published by the National Movement for Free Elections and League of Women Voters The WOMAN who votes has outdone the MAN who didn't !
